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thereabouts

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there·a·bouts  (âr-bouts) also there·a·bout (-bout)
adv.
1. Near that place; about there: somewhere in Kansas or thereabouts.
2. About that number, amount, or time.

thereabouts or US thereabout
Adverb
near that place, time, amount, etc.: meet me at three o'clock or thereabouts, Methuselah lived 900 years or thereabouts
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adv.1.thereabouts - near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts"
2.thereabouts - near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks"
Translations

thereabouts [ˈðɛərəˈbauts] advpor ahí
thereabouts [ˈðɛərəˈbauts] there adv (place) → par, près de là;
(amount) → environ, à peu près
thereabouts [ˈðɛərəˈbauts] adv or thereabouts (place) → oder dortherum;
(amount, time) → oder so
thereabouts [ˈðɛərəbauts] adv (place) → nei pressi, da quelle parti;
(amount) → giù di lì, all'incirca


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But Hesiod, the poet, says just the opposite: that the sea was open, but Orion piled up the promontory by Peloris, and founded the close of Poseidon which is especially esteemed by the people thereabouts.
Serpents' filth and evil odour, the distance concealed from me: and that a lizard's craft prowled thereabouts lasciviously.
We were surrounded by banks, and rocks, and shoals of all kinds, but had happily drifted, it seemed, upon the only safe speck that was to be found thereabouts.
 
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