英和和英

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ðɛəɹəˈbaʊt/, /ˈðɛəɹəbaʊt/
• (General American) IPA: /ˈðɛɹəˌbaʊt/, /ˌðɛɹəˈbaʊt/
• ハイフネーション: there‧a‧bout

副詞

thereabout (not comparable)

1. About or near that place.

   Synonym: thereabouts

2. About or around that date or time.

   Synonym: thereabouts

   Dinner will be ready at six-thirty or thereabout.

3. About or near to that condition or quality.

   Synonym: thereabouts

4. Approximately that number or quantity.

   Synonym: thereabouts

   The speed of light is 186,000 miles per second, right? Yes, thereabout.

5. (dated)
   1. About that or those: concerning it or them.

      Synonyms: thereon, thereupon, thereanent (Scotland)

      • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Luke 24:3–4, column 2:

        And they entred in, and found not the body of the Lord Jeſus. And it came to paſſe, as they were much perplexed thereabout, behold, two men ſtood by them in ſhining garments.

      • 1915, “102 S. C. 313. Etheredge et al. v. Ætna Ins. Co. (No. 9216.) (Supreme Court of South Carolina. Oct. 20, 1915.)”, in The Southeastern Reporter‎, volume 86, West Publishing Company, page 689:

        It cannot be denied that the devolutions of the title to the house in issue have been unusual, and are not free from challenge. In a contest betwixt legal titles, instruments of writing thereabout must often be strictly construed, and that which may be called the real intent of the makers is sometimes defeated. But this [case] does not demand a technical application of the rules of law governing the devolution of land titles. Only a contract is in issue here.

   2. (figuratively) Near to that activity or situation.

      Synonym: thereabouts

      • 1917, “Index”, in Alexander Gordon, editor, Freedom After Ejection: A Review (1690-1692) of Presbyterian and Congregational Nonconformity in England and Wales (Historical Series)‎, No. XXX, University of Manchester, page 278:

        HANCOCK, THOMAS (d. 1706?). Said to have been a tanner. Held the sequestered vicarage of St. Winnow, Corn.; ejected, 1660. Continued preaching thereabout. Signed the thanks of Cornish Ministers. Licensed, 10 or 20 June 1672, as Presbyterian, to teach in his house, parish of Morval, Corn.; the house was licensed, 22 July. From 1687 he maintained a congregation at East Looe, parish of St. Martin, two miles from Morval, and received annual grants (£10, reduced 1695 to £6) from 1690 to end of 1705.

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アナグラム

• breathe out, outbreathe