Meaning

(obsolete) Approximately in time..

Definitions by Sense

1. (obsolete) Approximately in time.
2. At what approximate time.
3. The approximate time.

Example Sentences

In the first place, I wish to congratulate the Premier upon the spirit which has inspired him to bring about the change from “colony” to “dominion"; and the only defect in the spirit I can really find isthat^([sic]) he is premature to the extent of whenabout fifty years.

Having expected the Rector of Faringdon for some time at my house, I could not so well say whenabout we should endeavour to get to Town; […]

yet the results are only approximate; and in the dates given below no painful accuracy is attempted; it being enough for our purpose to know when or whenabout any drama was produced.

After a dogged silence of long months, in which there have been scores of anxious inquiries on the part of our readers, as to his whereabout, whatabout, and whenabout,—and when-to-be-about,—the Indifferent Man has at length, in the cool indifference of his own good time, 'forked over' the stanzas below, composed on the daguerreotype shadow of a sweetheart whom he had never seen.

Moreover, two events which are simultaneous to one observer, are not necessarily simultaneous to another observer. The whereabout depends upon the whenabout and the whenabout depends upon the whereabout, not only that, but each depends also on the velocity of an observer.

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

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