hereabouts

1. 1.

   in this general vicinity

   “the people are friendly hereabouts”

   Synonymshereabout

Questions about hereabouts

What does hereabouts mean?

hereabouts means "in this general vicinity".

How many syllables are in hereabouts?

hereabouts has 3 syllables: her-ea-bouts. The stress falls on "her". In IPA it is /ˈhɪɹəˌbaʊts/.

What is another word for hereabouts?

Close synonyms include hereabout. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hereabouts a common word?

hereabouts is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with hereabouts?