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thenabout

thenabout is the alternative form of thenabouts.

Meaning of thenabouts

Adverb

thenabouts (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete) about then
    • It has been conjectured that Aram got much of Cark’s money, and therewith paid off a mortgage; but this is only conjecture; and as he got a legacy by the will of an old lady thenabouts, it is as fair to presume that this money, so applied, was his own.1838, Norrisson Cavendish Scatcherd, Memoirs of the Celebrated Eugene Aram, who was executed for the murder of Daniel Clark in 1759, page 35

Origin of thenabout

From then + about.

Questions about thenabout

What is thenabout the alternative form of?
Thenabout is the alternative form of thenabouts.

Words near thenabout in the dictionary

  1. then and there
  2. then-
  3. then-and-now
  4. thenable
  5. thenables
  6. thenabout
  7. thenabouts
  8. thenad
  9. thenadays
  10. thenage
  11. thenal

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