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Near   /nɪr/   Listen
preposition
Near  prep.  Adjacent to; close by; not far from; nigh; as, the ship sailed near the land. See the Note under near, a.


adjective
Near  adj.  (compar. nearer; superl. nearest)  
1.
Not far distant in time, place, or degree; not remote; close at hand; adjacent; neighboring; nigh. "As one near death." "He served great Hector, and was ever near, Not with his trumpet only, but his spear."
2.
Closely connected or related. "She is thy father's near kinswoman."
3.
Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; touching, or affecting intimately; intimate; dear; as, a near friend.
4.
Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling; as, a version near to the original.
5.
So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow (3); as, a near escape; a near miss.
6.
Next to the driver, when he is on foot; in the Unted States, on the left of an animal or a team; as, the near ox; the near leg. See Off side, under Off, a.
7.
Immediate; direct; close; short. "The nearest way."
8.
Close-fisted; parsimonious. (Obs. or Low, Eng.) Note: Near may properly be followed by to before the thing approached; but more frequently to is omitted, and the adjective or the adverb is regarded as a preposition. The same is also true of the word nigh.
Synonyms: Nigh; close; adjacent; proximate; contiguous; present; ready; intimate; familiar; dear.


adverb
Near  adv.  
1.
At a little distance, in place, time, manner, or degree; not remote; nigh. "My wife! my traitress! let her not come near me."
2.
Nearly; almost; well-nigh. "Near twenty years ago." "Near a fortnight ago." "Near about the yearly value of the land."
3.
Closely; intimately.
Far and near, at a distance and close by; throughout a whole region.
To come near to, to want but little of; to approximate to. "Such a sum he found would go near to ruin him."
Near the wind (Naut.), close to the wind; closehauled.


verb
Near  v. t.  (past & past part. neared; pres. part. nearing)  To approach; to come nearer; as, the ship neared the land.


Near  v. i.  To draw near; to approach. "A speck, a mist, a shape, I wist! And still it neared, and neared."





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"Near" Quotes from Famous Books



... that it was a vision, an illusion of my senses, when I came near to the window. My eyes by chance looked down. My tunic was covered with hairs, long woman's hairs which had entangled ...
— Famous Modern Ghost Stories • Various
... things in Teresa's life of prayer is simply miraculous in a woman still living among things seen and temporal. Her faith is truly the substance of things hoped for, and the evidence of things not seen. Our Lord was as real, as present, as near, as visible, and as affable to this extraordinary saint as ever He was to Martha, or Mary, or Mary Magdalene, or the woman of Samaria, or the mother of Zebedee's children. She prepared Him where to lay ...
— Santa Teresa - an Appreciation: with some of the best passages of the Saint's Writings • Alexander Whyte
... found the morning long, but that was natural. Long afterwards he thought of its slow moving hours, lost in wonder that he should have caught no glimpse, heard no whisper, while all the time, through the beauty of the scented, summer day, the footsteps of inescapable fate drew so swiftly near. Fortunate indeed for us that the fragile house we dwell in is provided with no windows on the future side, and that the veil of the next moment is as impenetrable as ...
— Up the Hill and Over • Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
... Korea eat a great deal of rice. But they have other kinds of food. They have meat and fish and eggs and also fruit. You would think that they would use a great deal of tea, as they live so near China. But they do not drink tea. They drink rice water instead. The rice water is water that rice has been ...
— Big People and Little People of Other Lands • Edward R. Shaw
... subject, it may not be amiss to account for a pretty curious phaenomenon, viz, why we commonly keep at a distance such as we contemn, and allow not our inferiors to approach too near even in place and situation. It has already been observed, that almost every kind of idea is attended with some emotion, even the ideas of number and extension, much more those of such objects as are esteemed ...
— A Treatise of Human Nature • David Hume


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