thereabouts

IPA: ðɛrʌbˈaʊts

noun

  • (possibly erroneous) Location; whereabouts.

adverb

  • Synonym of thereabout:
  • About or near that place.
  • About or around that date or time.
  • About or near to that condition or quality.
  • Approximately that number or quantity.
  • (obsolete)
  • About that; concerning that.
  • (figuratively) Near to that activity or situation.
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Examples of "thereabouts" in Sentences

  • My beloved electric kettle, which ladegard gave me in 1995 or thereabouts, is on its last legs.
  • This week, or thereabouts, is the UK paperback debut of The Herring Seller's Apprentice, by L.C. Tyler.
  • This would mean that Ida died in 559 or thereabouts, which is inconsistent with his being responsible for killing Peredur in 580.
  • George as he knew of the "great house," as it was called thereabouts, that is to say he had seen him once or twice -- in the distance.
  • On February 19th 2010, franz chong wrote: fast forward twenty years of thereabouts from the my two dads them and you could have two and a half men.
  • Not only did I like what I did, his fans all wrote me and liked it enough to buy prints, and, Farmer himself, at 90 or thereabouts, is the owner the painting, he liked it so much!
  • I used to calculate that if you put the registered unemployed at round about two millions and threw in the destitute and those who for one reason and another were not registered, you might take the number of underfed people in England (for everyone on the dole or thereabouts is underfed) as being, at the very most, five millions.

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