{ } adv. [ The latter spelling is less proper, but more commonly used. ] 1. Near that place. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. Near that number, degree, or quantity; nearly; as, ten men, or thereabouts. [ 1913 Webster ] Five or six thousand horse . . . or thereabouts. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ] Some three months since, or thereabout. Suckling. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. Concerning that; about that. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ] What will ye dine? I will go thereabout. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ] They were much perplexed thereabout. Luke xxiv. 4. [ 1913 Webster ] Variants: Thereabout | 