thereabouts
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4.9
- adverb
- /ˌðɛrəˈbaʊts/
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- The festival will be held in July or thereabouts, so make sure to plan your trip.
Examples
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You should get an oil change in Boston or thereabout before coming back.
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Victory Mansions were old flats, built in 1930 or thereabouts, and were falling to pieces.
Fiction book (1998) -
"Queenie," she says, "think His Nibs might care to know I've set dinner for five or thereabouts?"
Fiction book (1991) -
Big Yawn, people called him, was a familiar name thereabouts, last heard of two summers before when he’d gone bust on two sections just south of the line into Dakota, near Buford.
Fiction book (1997) -
She seemed to be in her late forties or thereabouts, a tall, thin woman with her arms folded across her bosom, hugging herself as if trying to retain body warmth, though the temperature still hovered in the low eighties.
Fiction book (1999) -
We visited several towns near the coast and spent some time in Newport and thereabouts.
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He moved to the countryside, near the river or thereabouts, to enjoy a quieter life.
Synonyms
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1.0
Being near a place or person
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1.0
In or around a place, moving from one part to another
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6.7
Near that place, close to the spot
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Thereabouts comes from the parts there ('that place') and about ('around'), which gives the image of being 'near that place'. That's why it means 'in or near that area' or 'close by'.