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hereabouts

adv

Etymology

From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive).

  1. inherited from about
  2. inherited from abūtan
  3. inherited from aboute
  4. compounded as hereabout — “here + about”
  5. suffixed as hereabouts — “hereabout + s”

Definitions

  1. Near here.

    • The people hereabouts, sir, would seem to dispense with street illumination, and it is very dark tonight.
    • How far might you call yourselves from the marshes, hereabouts? Not above a mile, I reckon?
    • Hereabouts is Knockupworth, where the line deviates from the canal course.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA