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Princeton's WordNet

  1. nearest, nighest, closestadverb

    (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance

    "that was the time he came nearest to death"

Wiktionary

  1. nearestadjective

    closest to,

  2. nearestpreposition

    closest to

Wikipedia

  1. nearest

    NEAR or Near

ChatGPT

  1. nearest

    Nearest refers to the smallest distance or the closest proximity to a specific point, location, object, or person. It implies a relative position that is physically or conceptually closer than any other.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Nearest' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4630

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'Nearest' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3610

Anagrams for Nearest »

  1. earnest

  2. Earnest

  3. eastern

  4. sterane

  5. estrane

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of Nearest in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of Nearest in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of Nearest in a Sentence

  1. Hamisi Bujeje:

    My business has not been doing very well because of lack of power. I was incurring huge operational costs. I used to travel 29 km (18 miles) to the nearest island of Nansio to access electricity and have some items fixed.

  2. Fabo Feng:

    GJ 433 d is the nearest, widest and coldest Neptune-like planet ever detected.

  3. Thomas Fuller:

    A good friend is my nearest relation.

  4. Gomez Cora:

    The Pumas say there is nothing nicer than playing at home and although this is not at home, we always play so far away, we don’t have any tournament in which we are hosts, the nearest is 14 hours by plane, playing near home will lift the lads because they say' I want to show what I do around the world because they never see it because I play far away', friends and family will be there and that can be a plus.

  5. North Carolina:

    Abject terror, climb up the nearest tree.

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