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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. Peter Amelio:

    They’ll bump a car in traffic, make it appear like an accident – and then when you pull over, they’ll carjack you, if a situation like that happens and you’re bumped in traffic and you don’t trust it, know where the nearest police station is and drive there.

  2. Ronald Reagan:

    No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

  3. Dieter Uchtdorf:

    If we interact with people with the sole expectation that they soon will don a white jumpsuit and ask for directions to the nearest baptismal font, were doing it wrong, some who come and see will, perhaps, never join the church; some will at a later time. That is their choice. But that doesnt change our love for them.

  4. Cato the Elder:

    I think the first virtue is to restrain the tongue he approaches nearest to gods who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.

  5. David Harkey:

    When people are forced to walk long distances to the nearest signalized intersection, they are more likely to choose the riskier option of sprinting across multiple lanes of traffic, communities can improve safety by providing more options to safely cross.

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