whenabout
The approximate time.
Adverb
- Approximately in time.
- In the first place, I wish to congratulate the Premier upon the spirit which has inspired him to bring about the change from “colony” to “dominion"; and the only defect in the spirit I can really find isthat^([sic]) he...
- At what approximate time.
- Having expected the Rector of Faringdon for some time at my house, I could not so well say whenabout we should endeavour to get to Town; […] - 1877, Gilbert White, The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne, page...
- yet the results are only approximate; and in the dates given below no painful accuracy is attempted; it being enough for our purpose to know when or whenabout any drama was produced. - 1913, James Stalker, How to Read...
Origin
From when + about.
Forms
Noun
- The approximate time.
- After a dogged silence of long months, in which there have been scores of anxious inquiries on the part of our readers, as to his whereabout, whatabout, and whenabout,—and when-to-be-about,—the Indifferent Man has at...
- Moreover, two events which are simultaneous to one observer, are not necessarily simultaneous to another observer. The whereabout depends upon the whenabout and the whenabout depends upon the whereabout, not only that,...
Forms
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