thereabouts
part of speech
adverb (thereabouts; US also thereabout)
meaning for a pupil
1) Near that place. tree →
2) Near that number, amount or time: «ten o'clock or thereabouts» means about ten. tree →
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 →
- There were fifty people or thereabouts. tree →
- He lives in Dublin or somewhere thereabouts. tree →
- It costs £10 or thereabouts. tree →
- The treasure is buried by the old tree or thereabouts. tree →
- She's eight or thereabouts. tree →
- Full of these remembrances, he came within sight of a lofty mountain, which the people thereabouts told him was called Parnassus. tree →
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, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.