thereabout Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adverb near that time or date
    thereabouts.
    • come at noon or thereabouts
  2. adverb near that place
    thereabouts.
    • he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks

WordNet


There"a*bout`, There"a*bouts` adverb (Also<
  • Thereabout
  • Thereabouts
)
Etymology
The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.
Definitions
  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.

Webster 1913