Meanings
- not comparableNear here.
Hereabouts is Knockupworth, where the line deviates from the canal course.
1955 February, M. F. Barbey, “From Carlisle to Silloth”, in Railway Magazine, page 952 more examples
The people hereabouts, sir, would seem to dispense with street illumination, and it is very dark tonight.
1927, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], Max Carrados MysteriesHow 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, […], published October 1861, →OCLC, page 64
Synonyms & antonyms
adverbin this general vicinity
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive).
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Finnish täälläpäin, näillä main
- täälläpäinnear here
- näillä mainnear here
German hierherum, hierorts
- hierherumnear here
- hierortsnear here
- hier herumnear here
- in dieser Gegendnear here
Hungarian errefelé
- errefelénear here
Irish anseo timpeall, thart anseo
- anseo timpeallnear here
- thart anseonear here
Scottish Gaelic a-bhos
- a-bhosnear here
Spanish por aquí, por acá
- por aquínear here
- por acánear here
- por esta zonanear here
Swedish häromkring, här i trakten
- häromkringnear here
- här i traktennear here
- här i närhetennear here
Welsh oddi amgylch, nid nepell o fan hyn
- oddi amgylchnear here
- nid nepell o fan hynnear here
Cite this entry
hereabouts. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hereabouts
“hereabouts.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hereabouts. Accessed November 2, 2026.
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