Synonyms:
thereabout, thereabouts
Meaning: near that place; "he stayed in London or thereabouts for several weeks"
Synonyms:
thereabout, thereabouts
Meaning: near that time or date; "come at noon or thereabouts"
Usage examples
In ten minutes or thereabouts the animals would certainly appear in a circle more or less confined.
At last the Squire rode right up to him, and asked if he had seen any one lurking about in the wood thereabouts.
To tell you the truth, I am sorry for the boy--he is only twenty-one or thereabouts, and I think he has been misguided.
But the space of time which had elapsed was too brief to admit of the latter's having ridden more than a hundred yards or thereabouts.
The town yet endures, with its towers and houses, to bear witness to the truth; moreover the country thereabouts is known to us all as the Valley of Pistres.
The commander-in-chief of this squadron was Oliver de Noort, a man at that time about thirty or thereabouts, and well known as having made several long cruising voyages.
We have a hundred thousand francs or thereabouts loaned on their securities, and we are a little uneasy at reports that have reached us that the firm is on the brink of ruin.
She was not a large vessel; about two hundred tons or thereabouts, apparently; painted all black down to her copper, excepting a narrow red ribbon which marked the line of her sheer.