near
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Is near a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
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- Wordle No
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Definition
adj (English)
1. (British, in relation to a vehicle) On the side nearest to the kerb (the left-hand side if one drives on the left).Examples: "The near front wheel came loose."Antonyms: offBritish
2. (dated) Next to the driver, when he is on foot; (US) on the left of an animal or a team.Examples: "the near ox; the near leg"dated
3. (obsolete) Immediate; direct; close; short.Examples: "Toward ſolid good what leads the neareſt way;"obsolete
4. (now rare) Stingy; parsimonious.Examples: "Don't be near with your pocketbook."; "[T]o let you know, Miss, he's so near, it's partly a wonder how he lives at all: and yet he's worth a power of money, too."archaic
5. (programming, not comparable) Within the currently selected segment in a segmented memory architecture.Examples: "a near pointer"Antonyms: farnot-comparable
verb (English)
1. (ambitransitive) To come closer to; to approach.Examples: "The ship nears the land."; "We started back in the same conditions, and for part of the journey ran through semi-darkness, but the sun appeared once again as we neared London."; "As he neared a bridge over the East Coast Main Line near Great Heck, he lost control. His Land Rover left the carriageway and veered onto the hard shoulder before biting into the grass verge."ambitransitive
noun (English)
1. (dialectal, rare, Lincolnshire, Derbyshire) Kidney.Derbyshiredialectalrare
Definition source: Wiktionary