'Thereabout' definitions:
Definition of 'thereabout'
From: WordNet
adverb
Near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts" [syn: thereabout, thereabouts]
adverb
Near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks" [syn: thereabout, thereabouts]
Definition of 'Thereabout'
From: GCIDE
- Thereabout \There"a*bout`\, Thereabouts \There"a*bouts`\, adv. [The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
- 1. Near that place. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. [1913 Webster]
- Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Some three months since, or thereabout. --Suckling. [1913 Webster]
- 3. Concerning that; about that. [R.] [1913 Webster]
- What will ye dine? I will go thereabout. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- They were much perplexed thereabout. --Luke xxiv. 4. [1913 Webster]