In essence, going from most reliable and thorough and narrow to most unreliable, shallow and broad; Wiktionary is a step in the middle of that route and a good choice if it's to be your one-stop resource, but not the best if you actually want to research given word. SF. SF.

This means that while Wikipedia documents what others say about topics, Wiktionary documents the meanings of words and phrases without relying on the statements of others. As a consequence, the requirements of verifiability are different.

Other forms: abouts. The adverb about, when used with a quantity, means approximately or roughly.

Etymology. Preposition and adverb from Middle English aboute, abouten, from Old English abūtan, onbūtan, from on (“in, on”) +‎ būtan (“outside of”), itself from be (“by”) +‎ ūtan (“outside”).