Adjacent Words

nearby definitions

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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: close at hand; "the nearby towns"; "concentrated his study on the nearby planet Venus" adv
1: not far away in relative terms; "she works nearby"; "the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars"

Merriam Webster's

adverb or adjective Date: 14th century close at hand

Oxford Reference Dictionary

adj. & adv. --adj. situated in a near position (a nearby hotel). --adv. close; not far away.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

also near by, near-by Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. If something is nearby, it is only a short distance away. He might easily have been seen by someone who lived nearby... There is less expensive accommodation nearby... There were one or two suspicious looks from nearby. ADV: ADV after v, n ADV, from ADV • Nearby is also an adjective. At a nearby table a man was complaining in a loud voice... ...the nearby village of Crowthorne. ? distant ADJ: ADJ n

Moby Thesaurus

about, accessible, adjacent, along toward, around, aside, at close quarters, at hand, away, beside, by, circa, close, close about, close at hand, close by, convenient, convenient to, easily reached, fast by, handy, hard, hard by, hereabout, hereabouts, immediate, in juxtaposition, in spitting distance, in the vicinity, near, near at hand, nearabout, nearabouts, nigh, nigh about, not far, on one side, on the side, only a step, propinquant, propinquous, ready at hand, round, sidelong, thereabout, thereabouts, to hand, to one side, to the side, within call, within earshot, within hearing, within reach