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ADJECTIVE near COMPARATIVE nearer SUPERLATIVE nearest
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near English

Meaning near meaning

What does near mean?
Definitions in simple English

near Preposition

— With a small distance between; close. The end is near. She lives near me. The house is near the beach.

near Adjective

— Almost It was a near miss, but the car didn't hit us. — Close The nearest thing to me is my family. We'll be meeting again in the near future.

near Verb

— To come close to, approach. We neared the beach.

near

— adjective (= close) not far distant in time or space or degree or circumstances near neighbors in the near future they are near equals his nearest approach to success a very near thing a near hit by the bomb she was near tears she was close to tears had a close call — adverb (= nigh, close) near in time or place or relationship as the wedding day drew near stood near the door don't shoot until they come near getting near to the true explanation her mother is always near The end draws nigh the bullet didn't come close don't get too close to the fire — verb (= approach, draw near) move towards We were approaching our destination They are drawing near The enemy army came nearer and nearer — adverb (= about, almost, most, nearly, nigh, virtually, well-nigh) (of actions or states) slightly short of or not quite accomplished; all but the job is (just) about done the baby was almost asleep when the alarm sounded we're almost finished the car all but ran her down he nearly fainted talked for nigh onto 2 hours the recording is well-nigh perfect virtually all the parties signed the contract I was near exhausted by the run most everyone agrees — adjective closely resembling the genuine article near beer a dress of near satin — adjective (= nigh) being on the left side the near or nigh horse is the one on the left the animal's left side is its near or nigh side — adjective (= approximate) very close in resemblance sketched in an approximate likeness a near likeness — adjective (= dear, good) with or in a close or intimate relationship a good friend my sisters and brothers are near and dear — adjective (= cheeseparing, close, penny-pinching) giving or spending with reluctance our cheeseparing administration very close (or near) with his money a penny-pinching miserly old man

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close nearby beside by at close to adjacent close by approach next to next proximate nigh almost neighbouring nearly about towards at hand with around near to approximate on come near to neighboring contiguous in handy alongside adjoining stingy soon short related proximity niggardly near-by narrow intimate immediate go up forthcoming draw near draw close come close closely anear along

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Topics near topics

What do people use near to talk about?
States Big Distance

Near
States Time Aspectual time Future

Soon
States Quantity All Exact

Approximate
States Big Distance

Far
Physical actions Move

Move toward something
States Quantity All

Almost
Person Healthy Disabled

Poor eyesight
Social behavior Relationships

Neighbor
States Time Aspectual time

Future
Grammar Semantic constituents related to verbs Epistemic moods

Just, almost not

Conjugation near conjugation

How do you conjugate near?

near · verb

Examples near examples

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Simple sentences

Is there a McDonald's near here?
Fear of pollution discouraged people from building homes near power plants.
There is a church near my house.
Don't put the glass near the edge of the table.
I live near here.
Her house is near the sea.
She used to live near him.
Tom hung his coat on one of the hooks near the door.
The police found a dead body in an abandoned car near the park.
My apartment is near.
Do you live near here?
The police found a body washed up on the beach near here.
Did you grow up near a beach?
I used to live near a park.
Is there a youth hostel near here?
I live near the sea so I often get to go to the beach.
More than a third of the world population lives near a coast.
Your wish will come true in the near future.
I'm looking for a bank. Is there one near here?
I ran across an old friend near the bank.
A fire broke out near my house.
There is a flower shop near by.
Are there any movie theaters near here?
There is a bus stop near by.
There's a nice Thai restaurant near here.
I wish I could live near your house.
In the near future, space travel will no longer be just a dream.
There will be an energy crisis in the near future.
Will there be an earthquake in the near future?

Movie subtitles

If I were you, I would not go near.
By 1 506, the Portuguese had a near monopoly on shipping along the East African coast.
Just don't go near any naked flames.
Let me take a look at that arm. Don't come near me.
They came in, they turned out the lights, everything was black. the next thing I know, I could feel someone near me, and then I heard the most awful, horrible sound.
With those, we'll know if anything tries to get near.
The following evening, near the wineries of Bercy.
She had found shelter in a convent near Paris.
Meanwhile, in the local police station near the abandoned house.
In the Castle of Loges, near a small city in the sub-prefecture of Saint-Calais.
Near the bull ring at Seville.
Be near the tree that throws its shadow for lovers just without my door.
The squadron draws near!
For she was near him, holding his hand, smiling at him.
This registration starts as a wiggling line near zero where there is no radio emission.
Dude couldn't deal with anyone else near his girl.
I can't get near this guy.
I can't let him get anywhere near 004 and 009.
Our underwater uni t has detected something near the bottom!
The hour of destruction is near.
They were moving at significantly high speed. But there seems to have been some sort of explosion near 52nd Street.
Oh, mother, mother dear, A long way from here. I cry longing for you Want to be near.
If you're innocent, as you claim, in spite of being seen near the victim's dressing room and clearly being sought after, why didn't you go to the authorities on your own?
Near Central Park.
Say, if you get near a song, play it.
When you're near, why am I so romantic?
Come near breaking' mine too.
If any of you louts try to get too near, I'll punch you in the ribs and bang you on the ear.
They play dirty, which is why sometimes it seems like it's damned near impossible for rule-abiding kids to win.
I HAVETO DO THIS. IF YOU THINK I'M LETTING YOU GET NEAR MILES' MONEY, YOU ARE CRAZY.
THE NEAR-DEATH-EXPERIENCE CHAIR!
Which will produce fear, which seems to be the final ingredient in producing a full near-death experience.
I will not remain a single minute near you without getting complete satisfaction.
Then on the night the necklace disappeared they were seen near Mrs. Potter's.
I'm not allowed near them.
Be near me always.
WELL, NO ONE'S BEEN NEAR ME BUT YOU.
WELL, THAT'S NEAR ENOUGH.
Don't let anybody near Johnny. I've locked him in.
I'm not allowed to go near him.
You'd never get near him.

News and current affairs

He would be shocked to look at today's world: a Europe with stubbornly high unemployment, a Japan mired in a decade of near stagnation, and now an America lacking the policy tools to deal with any additional unexpected economic bad news.
Putting major drug traffickers behind bars at the new maximum-security prison at Pul-i-Charki, near Kabul, would be a good start.
Meanwhile, the ability to backstop, ring-fence, and bail out banks and other financial institutions is constrained by politics and near-insolvent sovereigns' inability to absorb additional losses from their banking systems.
The expanded funding allowed major campaigns against AIDS, TB, and malaria; a major scaling up of safe childbirth; and increased vaccine coverage, including the near-eradication of polio.
To be sure, inflation is difficult to bring about when short-term interest rates are near zero - and thus cannot be reduced any further without inducing massive hoarding of cash.
Nevertheless, I suspect that the age of American exceptionalism is near an end, and soon per capita income in Europe and Japan will approach that of the US, rather than falling farther behind.
The net saving rate fell to near zero.
Approving a long-run deficit-reduction plan now but deferring its starting date until the economy is near full employment would prevent premature fiscal contraction from tipping the economy back into recession.
That discontent will likely gather momentum as elections near, which may be enough to stop the federal authorities from meeting their strategic goal of winning an unchallengeable majority of seats in the new Duma.
An Arab intellectual persecuted by an Arab regime, it seems, is nowhere near the top of their agenda.
This is true also for other kinds of group hatred, but the Holocaust makes anti-Semitism unique, because it is an emotion complicit in the near annihilation of an entire people.
Within the near future, the EU is likely to be 450 million people strong.
In the near future, the US government will be focused on homeland security, Iraq, the slumping domestic economy, and the run-up to the 2004 presidential election.
At the same time, tax laws have been revised to make investors wealthier in the near term, discouraging long-term investment in research.
After adjusting for inflation, today's price is nowhere near the all-time high of January 1980.
Today, with interest rates near or at record lows in many countries, it is relatively cheap to speculate in gold instead of investing in bonds.
Less than one in 10 Croats (whose country could be joining the EU in the near future) believes that their country is heading in the right direction.
But note that it occurred near a health facility.
While home prices are crashing from Madrid to Dublin and Miami to Los Angeles, African prices remain near or at record-high levels.
When Arafat was seriously ill in 2003, Palestinians were near panic.
The near-panic conditions in financial markets eased as soon as rumors spread that this solution had at least been discussed behind closed doors.
The US economy is still ranked near the top in competitiveness by the World Economic Forum, and the political system, in its own messy way, has slowly begun to wrestle with the necessary changes.
All we know as of this writing is that a deal would probably involve cuts in near-term spending, meaning weaker growth and higher unemployment over the next 18 months.
The chance of seeing exchange rates near the IMF values any time soon is slim.
For it was on a Turkish flagged ship that Israeli forces killed nine people, causing a near-rupture in Israeli-Turkish relations.
But it is also plausible that lack of support for the euro and the ongoing US miracle will see the euro sink to exceptionally low levels of near.80 and even less.
Across Russia's near abroad, a form of criminalized diplomacy is taking root.
Delinquencies, defaults, and foreclosures are now spreading from sub-prime to near-prime and prime mortgages.
It is held culpable for the near financial meltdown.

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