Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: hereabouts
IPA transcription: [h'ɪɹəb,aʊts]
r meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: hereabout, hereabouts
    Meaning: in this general vicinity; "the people are friendly hereabouts"
Usage examples
  • Browsing hereabouts, I reckon.
  • But folks hereabouts don't like him.
  • There's never any housebreaking hereabouts."
  • But there is nobody hereabouts to attach her; and she goes so seldom from home."
  • The town is composed of some sixty houses, arranged on the plain which hereabouts crowns the river-bank.
  • 'Dear mother', said the lad, 'mayn't I just go up to the top of this high crag while you rest, and try if I can't see some sign of folk hereabouts?'