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Nearer   /nˈɪrər/   Listen
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.


nearer  adj.  Less distant in space; as, we walked to the nearer house.





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"Nearer" Quotes from Famous Books



... didn't sit there and watch it until it had burnt into a charred heap of ashes. While he had been attending to it he had left a sheet of typewritten paper down on the table and as he turned to get it it fluttered to the floor. I was the nearer to it so I picked it up and handed it to him. As I did so I caught a glimpse of the characters that covered most of it. I got just the one look at them, but one line I noticed ran ...
— The Lost Valley • J. M. Walsh
... either of the boys to believe that the spot to which Zeke had pointed was so far distant. The air was so clear that the place appeared to be much nearer than it really was and if they had been asked each boy would have stated his opinion that the intervening distance could ...
— The Go Ahead Boys and Simon's Mine • Ross Kay
... story was interesting. It is the necessary preliminary assumption. If I hadn't believed that it was interesting I could never have begun to write it. As to the mere physical possibility we all know that some speeches in Parliament have taken nearer six than three hours in delivery; whereas all that part of the book which is Marlow's narrative can be read through aloud, I should say, in less than three hours. Besides—though I have kept strictly all such insignificant details out of the tale—we may presume that there must have been ...
— Notes on My Books • Joseph Conrad
... during the past night; always dreaming of Timbuctoo. The further an object is from you the nearer it is to your thoughts. The morning broke with a violent wind from the south-east, which is exceedingly disagreeable. Rais continues very gracious, and sends me constantly cakes, being a portion of what he receives as presents ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... periods, but subsequently to the events described in them, are a secondary but valuable source of historical knowledge. This is especially true when their authors had access to traditions that were nearer their fountain, or to literary ...
— Outline of Universal History • George Park Fisher


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