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English Dictionary: thereabout by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
thereabout
adv
  1. near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts"
    Synonym(s): thereabout, thereabouts
  2. near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks"
    Synonym(s): thereabout, thereabouts
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Thereabout \There"a*bout`\, Thereabouts \There"a*bouts`\, adv.
      [The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
      1. Near that place.
  
      2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten
            men, or thereabouts.
  
                     Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts.
                                                                              --Shak.
  
                     Some three months since, or thereabout. --Suckling.
  
      3. Concerning that; about that. [R.]
  
                     What will ye dine? I will go thereabout. --Chaucer.
  
                     They were much perplexed thereabout.   --Luke xxiv.
                                                                              4.
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