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nearabouts

nearabouts adverb: synonym of nearabout.

Adverb

nearabouts (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of nearabout.
    • nearabouts the library, nearabouts ten o'clock
    • For where the majesty of a king's house draws recourse and access, it is both disgraceful to the king and diseaseful to the people, if the ways near-abouts be not fair and good […]c. 1613–1621, Francis Bacon, The judicial charge upon the commission of Oyer and Terminer held for the verge of the Court
    Synonyms:
    nearabout

Synonyms of nearabouts

Origin of nearabouts

From near + about + -s (see adverbial genitive).

Questions about nearabouts

What does nearabouts mean?
Nearabouts means synonym of nearabout.
What part of speech is nearabouts?
Nearabouts is an adverb.

Words near nearabouts in the dictionary

  1. near-synonyms
  2. near-term
  3. nearable
  4. nearables
  5. nearabout
  6. nearabouts
  7. nearbout
  8. nearby
  9. nearbys
  10. nearcation
  11. nearcations

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