Hypertext Webster Gateway: "Thereabout"

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)

Thereabout \There"a*bout`\, Thereabouts \There"a*bouts`\, adv.
[The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used.]
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.

From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)

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}]

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