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adjective
- 1. not far away; close: "he slung his jacket over a nearby chair"
adverb
- 1. close by: "his four sisters live nearby"
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not far away in distance; close: A police officer was standing nearby. We walked to a nearby park. (Definition of nearby from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of nearby. nearby. Soil from an undisturbed site nearby was sampled for comparison. From the Cambridge English Corpus.
The meaning of NEARBY is close at hand. How to use nearby in a sentence.
Nearby definition: close at hand; not far off; adjacent; neighboring. See examples of NEARBY used in a sentence.
not far away in distance; close: A police officer was standing nearby. We walked to a nearby park. (Definition of nearby from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press) Examples of nearby. nearby. Continuing down the road there are several attractions nearby to keep you busy for days. From International Business Times.
Definitions of nearby. adverb. not far away in relative terms. “she works nearby ”. “the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars”. adjective. close at hand. “the nearby towns”. “concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus”.
If something is nearby, it is only a short distance away. He might easily have been seen by someone who lived nearby. He spoke softly to a couple standing nearby.
Definition of nearby adjective in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Define nearby. nearby synonyms, nearby pronunciation, nearby translation, English dictionary definition of nearby. adj. Located a short distance away; close at hand. adv. Not far away: She lives downtown and works nearby.
I went to the forest nearby and got the elephant his food, and as he started to eat I began to cook my own meal.
adjective, adverb. uk / ˌnɪəˈbaɪ / us. B1. not far away: a nearby town / village. An old friend of mine has just moved nearby. More examples. Were you anywhere nearby when the accident happened? Ambulances raced the injured to a nearby hospital.
