thereabout
(ad.)在那附近;大約那時
There·a·bout There·a·bouts adv.
1. Near that place.
2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts.
Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. --Shak.
Some three months since, or thereabout. --Suckling.
3. Concerning that; about that. [R.]
What will ye dine? I will go thereabout. --Chaucer.
They were much perplexed thereabout. --Luke xxiv. 4.
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thereabout
adv 1: near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts" [syn:
thereabouts]
2: near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for
several weeks" [syn: thereabouts]