thereabouts

Meanings

1. 1
   adv

   approximately; near the stated number, amount, or time

   The repairs should cost two thousand dollars or thereabouts.

2. 2
   adv

   near or around that place

   We stopped at the village and searched thereabouts for a place to stay.

From Middle English there-aboutes, formed from there + about with the old adverbial ending -s. Its spatial meaning, 'around that place,' broadened naturally to approximation in time, quantity, and value.

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