Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adverb In this general vicinity; around here.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Same as hereabout.

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  • adverb Near here.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in this general vicinity

Etymologies

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hereabout +‎ -s (See adverbial genitive)

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Examples

  • A local specialty hereabouts is green chili jelly.

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  • One of the peculiarities of the climate hereabouts is that one can always rely upon snow in the days before the holiday, with the result that it lies deep, crisp and, indeed, even in the village as carol singers with lanterns make their way from door to door.

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  • Larentia lay buried; the spot is at this day called Velabrum, because, the river frequently overflowing, they went over in ferry-boats somewhere hereabouts to the forum, the Latin word for ferrying being velatura.

    The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

  • Long may he remain hereabouts after his work shall have been finished.

    MacDonald's Greatness in His Times 1965

  • Flyheel Flo is her name hereabouts; alluding to her former profession of circus-rider.

    Wandering Heath Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • We went in the evening for a walk, and as far as the views were discernible thro 'a thick haze, the country hereabouts is even more beautiful than at Rawdon. ...

    New Letters and Memorials of Jane Welsh Carlyle 1893

  • Every quarried mass hereabouts is marked with rows of these wedge-holes.

    A Thousand Miles Up the Nile 1891

  • At the wood-pile on the shore you may generally see one of the people called "Pikes," whom you will recognize by a very broad-brimmed hat, a frequent squirting of tobacco-juice, and the possession of two or three hounds, whom they call hereabouts "hound-dogs," as we say "bull-dog."

    Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands Charles Nordhoff 1865

  • What, with careless exaggeration, he had said to a friend some months before, on setting forth his _Elegy on the Death of a Young Man_, "The thing has made my name hereabouts more famous than twenty years of practice would have done; but it is a name like that of him who burnt the Temple of Ephesus: God be merciful to me a sinner!" might now with all seriousness be said of the impression his _Robbers_ made on the harmless townsfolk of Stuttgart.

    The Life of Friedrich Schiller Comprehending an Examination of His Works Thomas Carlyle 1838

  • "Close up, Ben, close up -- mum's the word hereabouts!

    Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915

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