See thereabouts in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"English terms with quotations"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1905, Robert Ernest Vernède, The Pursuit of Mr. Faviel, page 89:",
"text": "True, he had stopped at Langston Bucket by chance, and there was no reason why Mr. Boke should theorise as to his thereabouts.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2014, Dave Duncan, The Stricken Field:",
"text": "My companions are not far off, and are aware of my thereabouts.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Location; whereabouts."
],
"links": [
[
"Location",
"location"
],
[
"whereabouts",
"whereabouts"
]
],
"qualifier": "possibly erroneous",
"raw_glosses": [
"(possibly erroneous) Location; whereabouts."
],
"tags": [
"plural",
"plural-only"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈðɛəɹəbaʊts/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈðɛɹəˌbaʊts/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
}
],
"word": "thereabouts"
}
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"msg": "Form tags without form: desc='plural plural-only', tagsets=[('plural', 'plural-only')]",
"path": [
"thereabouts"
],
"section": "English",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "thereabouts",
"trace": ""
}
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