| near | |
| 1. adj. Physically close. | |
| 2. adj. Closely connected or related. | |
| 3. adj. Close to one's interests, affection, etc.; intimate; dear. | |
| a near friend | |
| 4. adj. Close to anything followed or imitated; not free, loose, or rambling. | |
| a version near to the original | |
| 5. adj. So as barely to avoid or pass injury or loss; close; narrow. | |
| a near escape | |
| 6. adj. (of an event) Approaching. | |
| The end is near. | |
| 7. adj. Approximate, almost. | |
| The two words are near synonyms. | |
| 8. adj. (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team. | |
| the near ox; the near leg | |
| 9. adj. (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short. | |
| 10. adj. (obsolete, slang) Stingy; parsimonious. | |
| 11. adv. Having a small intervening distance with regard to something. | |
| I'm near-sighted. | |
| 12. adv. (colloquial) nearly | |
| 13. prep. Close to, in close proximity to. | |
| There are habitable planets orbiting many of the stars near our Sun. | |
| 14. prep. Close to in time. | |
| The voyage was near completion. | |
| 15. v. To come closer to; to approach. | |
| The ship nears the land. | |
| 16. n. The left side of a horse or of a team of horses pulling a carriage etc. | |
