hereabout

or here·a·bouts

[ heer-uh-bout ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

Middle English word dating back to 1175–1225; here, about

Hereabout, certainly, the boy played, running forward and back across the market.

Hereabout is the well-stored shop of the librarian and publisher, never lacking custom in term-time.

Whatever antiquities may at any time have been hereabout, they are now all perfectly obscured and buried by the Turkish buildings.

We had always used sundials hereabout, till twelve or fourteen years ago, when a man came along with clocks to sell.

There are folks livin' hereabout, but their way o' livin's kind o' tough.

April 17, 2024axolotl

[ak-suh-lot-l ]

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