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HEREABOUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hereabout mean?
• HEREABOUT (adverb)
The adverb HEREABOUT has 1 sense:
1. in this general vicinity
Familiarity information: HEREABOUT used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In this general vicinity
Synonyms:
hereabout; hereabouts
Context example:
the people are friendly hereabouts
Context examples
There was a story that one of the pits dug for the dead in the time of the Great Plague was hereabout; and a blighting influence seemed to have proceeded from it over the whole place.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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