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HEREABOUT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hereabout mean? 

HEREABOUT (adverb)
  The adverb HEREABOUT has 1 sense:

1. in this general vicinityplay

  Familiarity information: HEREABOUT used as an adverb is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


HEREABOUT (adverb)


Sense 1

Meaning:

In this general vicinity

Synonyms:

hereabout; hereabouts

Context example:

the people are friendly hereabouts


 Context examples 


There was a story that one of the pits dug for the dead in the time of the Great Plague was hereabout; and a blighting influence seemed to have proceeded from it over the whole place.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)



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