THEREABOUTS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does thereabouts mean? 

• THEREABOUTS (adverb)
  The adverb THEREABOUTS has 2 senses:

1. near that time or date

2. near that place

  Familiarity information: THEREABOUTS used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• THEREABOUTS (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Near that time or date

Synonyms:

thereabout; thereabouts

Context example:

come at noon or thereabouts

Sense 2

Meaning:

Near that place

Synonyms:

thereabout; thereabouts

Context example:

he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks

 Context examples 

Their governess is a Miss Burnet, an Englishwoman of forty or thereabouts.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They desired me to stay—my cousin Maria charged me to say that you would find them at that knoll, or thereabouts.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The charming Augusta Hawkins, in addition to all the usual advantages of perfect beauty and merit, was in possession of an independent fortune, of so many thousands as would always be called ten; a point of some dignity, as well as some convenience: the story told well; he had not thrown himself away—he had gained a woman of 10,000 l. or thereabouts; and he had gained her with such delightful rapidity—the first hour of introduction had been so very soon followed by distinguishing notice; the history which he had to give Mrs. Cole of the rise and progress of the affair was so glorious—the steps so quick, from the accidental rencontre, to the dinner at Mr. Green's, and the party at Mrs. Brown's—smiles and blushes rising in importance—with consciousness and agitation richly scattered—the lady had been so easily impressed—so sweetly disposed—had in short, to use a most intelligible phrase, been so very ready to have him, that vanity and prudence were equally contented.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I was going to holla after them, although it had been to little purpose, when I observed a huge creature walking after them in the sea, as fast as he could: he waded not much deeper than his knees, and took prodigious strides: but our men had the start of him half a league, and, the sea thereabouts being full of sharp-pointed rocks, the monster was not able to overtake the boat.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The police, on the strength of what he said to Michaelis, that he "had a way of finding out," supposed that he spent that time going from garage to garage thereabouts inquiring for a yellow car.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)