Meaning

About or near that place..

Definitions by Sense

1. About or near that place.
2. About or around that date or time.
3. About or near to that condition or quality.
4. Approximately that number or quantity.
5. About that or those: concerning it or them.
6. Near to that activity or situation.

Example Sentences

Dinner will be ready at six-thirty or thereabout.

The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, right? Yes, thereabout.

And they entred in, and found not the body of the Lord Jeſus. And it came to paſſe, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men ſtood by them in ſhining garments.

It cannot be denied that the devolutions of the title to the house in issue have been unusual, and are not free from challenge. In a contest betwixt legal titles, instruments of writing thereabout must often be strictly construed, and that which may be called the real intent of the makers is sometimes defeated. But this [case] does not demand a technical application of the rules of law governing the devolution of land titles. Only a contract is in issue here.

HANCOCK, THOMAS (d. 1706?). Said to have been a tanner. Held the sequestered vicarage of St. Winnow, Corn.; ejected, 1660. Continued preaching thereabout. Signed the thanks of Cornish Ministers. Licensed, 10 or 20 June 1672, as Presbyterian, to teach in his house, parish of Morval, Corn.; the house was licensed, 22 July. From 1687 he maintained a congregation at East Looe, parish of St. Martin, two miles from Morval, and received annual grants (£10, reduced 1695 to £6) from 1690 to end of 1705.

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Use thereabout when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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