NEARER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nearer mean? 

• NEARER (adverb)
  The adverb NEARER has 1 sense:

1. (comparative of 'near' or 'close') within a shorter distance

  Familiarity information: NEARER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEARER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(comparative of 'near' or 'close') within a shorter distance

Synonyms:

closer; nearer; nigher

Context example:

getting nearer to the true explanation

Domain usage:

comparative; comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb)

 Context examples 

We made our best speed across the strip of wood that now divided us from the stockade, and at every step we took the voices of the buccaneers rang nearer.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

As I drew nearer I was more amazed still to see that it was Lord John Roxton.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I say a night’s work, but an hour’s would be nearer the mark.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I felt no fear, though I was sure of death in that boiling surge amongst the rocks which was rapidly growing nearer.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

“It does not matter,” thought she: “when we turn back, I shall be so much nearer home than he.”

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

As he held the match nearer, I saw that it was more than a stain.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ask Blanche; she is nearer you than I.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

And when the crows saw him they were frightened, as these birds always are by scarecrows, and did not dare to come any nearer.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)

I believed that I was nearer to his heart than any other friend, and my own heart warmed with attachment to him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

The technique used, which derived averaged variations in the flow of the gas as small as a few percent, revealed the impact of multiple planets on the gas motions nearer to the star.

(ALMA Discovers Trio of Infant Planets around Newborn Star, ESO)