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# thereabouts

«thereabouts» in Mova's school dictionary: **Near that place** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb (thereabouts; US also thereabout)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Near that place. [tree →](https://md.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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#m2)

### sense 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://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x1)
- There were fifty people or thereabouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x2)
- He lives in Dublin or somewhere thereabouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x3)
- It costs £10 or thereabouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x4)
- The treasure is buried by the old tree or thereabouts. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/#x5)
- She's eight or thereabouts. [tree →](https://md.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://md.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.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «thereabouts» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/T/thereabouts/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.