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English

Etymology

From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive).

Pronunciation

Adverb

hereabouts (not comparable)

  1. Near here.
    The people hereabouts are pretty decent folk.
    • 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Great Expectations [], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, [], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 64:
      How far might you call yourselves from the marshes, hereabouts? Not above a mile, I reckon?
    • 1955 February, M. F. Barbey, “From Carlisle to Silloth”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:
      Hereabouts is Knockupworth, where the line deviates from the canal course.

Translations

See also

Here-, there-, and where- words
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