near
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near/nɪə(r)/
▶adverb
- 1 at or to a short distance away.
- 2 a short time away in the future.
- 3 almost.
- 1 at or to a short distance away from (a place).
- 2 a short period of time from.
- 3 almost.
- 4 similar to.
- 1 located a short distance away.
- 2 only a short time ahead.
- 3 similar.
■ close to being (the thing mentioned).
■ having a close family connection.
- 4 located on the nearside of a vehicle. Compare with off (sense 3 of the adjective).
- 5 archaic mean; miserly.
– derivatives
nearish adjective,
nearness noun.
nearish adjective,
nearness noun.
– origin ME: from ON nær ‘nearer’, compar. of ná, corresp. to OE nēah ‘nigh’.
'near' also found in these Oxford entries:
abseil
- Acheulian
- ad fin.
- adjacent
- adjust
- aft
- alderfly
- alveolar
- ammonia
- anal
- apical
- approach
- approximate
- aquatic
- Aramaic
- attract
- Aurignacian
- aurora
- Aymara
- Baltic
- barb
- barrack square
- Bartholin's gland
- Bath stone
- bauxite
- bawn
- bifocal
- bilabial
- boiling
- bone
- Border collie
- borderer
- borderland
- bridewell
- brilliant cut
- by
- cadenza
- caesura
- Camembert
- cantaloupe
- Capo di Monte
- carronade
- Carthusian
- caruncle
- cassis
- catacomb
- caudal
- central
- centriole
- centrosome
