hereabouts
Near here.
Adverb
- Near here.
- The people hereabouts, sir, would seem to dispense with street illumination, and it is very dark tonight. - 1927, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados Mysteries:
- How far might you call yourselves from the marshes, hereabouts? Not above a mile, I reckon? - 1860 December – 1861 August, Charles Dickens, chapter V, in Great Expectations […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […],...
- Hereabouts is Knockupworth, where the line deviates from the canal course. - 1955 February, M. F. Barbey, “From Carlisle to Silloth”, in Railway Magazine, page 95:
Origin
From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive).
Related
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