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# thereabouts

adverb (thereabouts; US also thereabout)

«thereabouts» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Near that place. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#m1)
2. Near that number, amount or time: «ten o'clock or thereabouts» means about ten. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#m2)

### In the lessons

A word for guesses and estimates. In maths it signals an approximate answer: «a hundred or thereabouts». In everyday talk and in stories: «He lives in Oxford or thereabouts.»

### Examples

- The party starts at six or thereabouts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x1)
- There were fifty people or thereabouts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x2)
- He lives in Dublin or somewhere thereabouts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x3)
- It costs £10 or thereabouts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x4)
- The treasure is buried by the old tree or thereabouts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x5)
- She's eight or thereabouts. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x6)
- Full of these remembrances, he came within sight of a lofty mountain, which the people thereabouts told him was called Parnassus. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x7)

### Note

Almost always after «or»: «or thereabouts». In maths it means the number is approximate, not exact.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «thereabouts» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«thereabouts» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/thereabouts.html) on Mova free.