Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • About that; concerning that or it.
  • Near that place; in that neighborhood.
  • Near that number, quantity, degree, or time; as, a dozen or thereabout; two gallons or thereabout. In this and the last sense also thereabouts.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb Near that place.
  • adverb Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly.
  • adverb rare Concerning that; about that.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb near that place, time or date
  • adverb approximately that number
  • adverb obsolete concerning that; about that

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

  • adverb near that time or date
  • adverb near that place

Etymologies

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there +‎ about

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Examples

  • (Quran 18: 47) And he followed a road; Till, when he reached the setting-place of the Sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found a people thereabout.

    Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010

  • (Quran 18: 47) And he followed a road; Till, when he reached the setting-place of the Sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found a people thereabout.

    Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010

  • She was aiming to tap and return by the trail for the wood-sleds which crossed thereabout, but a mile away from it she ran into the soft snow and brought the winded dogs to a walk.

    CHAPTER 9 2010

  • And he followed a road; Till, when he reached the setting-place of the Sun, he found it setting in a muddy spring, and found a people thereabout.

    Daniel Bruno Sanz: Bad Moon, Burnt Qurans, Birthers and Flat Earthers Daniel Bruno Sanz 2010

  • In 2000 or thereabout, Governor Johnson called or threatened to call a special session to address the Indian reservation gas tax issue.

    Errors of Enchantment » A Possible “Revenue Enhancer” to Consider? 2010

  • Cynlas of Rhos was a big, hatchet-faced man of fifty or thereabout, broadly built and tall, the weathered skin of his face beginning to loosen over the bluntly prominent bones, his ox-blood-colored hair and mustache just threaded with gray.

    Dark Moon of Avalon Anna Elliott 2010

  • In 2007 we were a $200 million-plus [revenues] company, and we're going to exit 2010 at $1.4 billion or thereabout.

    Sharing Control At Equinix 2010

  • But I think he came into the spring training game in Fort Lauderdale, and it was the year, I believe, after the World Series or closely thereabout.

    It’s What’s Inside the Lines That Counts Fay Vincent 2010

  • In 2007 we were a $200 million-plus [revenues] company, and we're going to exit 2010 at $1.4 billion or thereabout.

    Sharing Control At Equinix 2010

  • And it came to pass, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men stood by them in shining garments: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

    Easter: Women were first, and unbelieved. Dan 2008

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