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hereabouts

hereabouts adverb: near here.

Adverb

hereabouts (not comparable)

  1. Near here.
    • 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 Mysteries
    • How 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

hereabouts meaning in Urdu and Bengali

hereabouts in Urdu

یہاں کہیں

hereabouts in Bengali

এখানের কাছাকাছি

Origin of hereabouts

From hereabout + -s (See adverbial genitive).

Questions about hereabouts

What does hereabouts mean?
Hereabouts means near here.
What is hereabouts in Urdu?
Hereabouts in Urdu is یہاں کہیں. See Hereabouts meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is hereabouts?
Hereabouts is an adverb.

Words near hereabouts in the dictionary

  1. here-scripts
  2. here-text
  3. here-texts
  4. here-with
  5. hereabout
  6. hereabouts
  7. hereabove
  8. hereafter
  9. hereafters
  10. hereafterward
  11. hereagainst

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Adapted from Wiktionary: hereabouts (page history and authors); hereabouts (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hereabouts (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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