nearby | meaning of nearby in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE

nearby | meaning of nearby in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English | LDOCE English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English English - Japanese English - Korean English - Spanish Japanese - English Spanish - English English 日本語 Español latino 한국어 nearby From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English nearby near‧by / ˈnɪəbaɪ $ ˈnɪr- / ●●● W3 adjective [ only before noun ] NEAR not far away Lucy was staying in the nearby town of Hamilton. ► see thesaurus at near — nearby / nɪəˈbaɪ $ ˈnɪr- / adverb Dan found work on one of the farms nearby. Do you live nearby? Examples from the Corpus nearby • For the first part of the route , the embankment gives views across Carrickknowe golf course and the nearby allotments . • At that moment , there came a nearby clatter of mops and pails . • Dinah lives in a nearby cottage . • Tom continues in school until he is sixteen, and Maggie goes to a nearby girls ' school, along with Lucy. • He faces a second charge of attempting to rob assistant Elizabeth Walsh at the nearby Grotto card shop on the same day. • Screams erupted at a nearby hotel , where Microsoft founder Bill Gates was addressing an education and technology conference . • They were cared for by friends at their home in nearby Witney. Quizzes Quizzes Take our quick quizzes to practise your vocabulary. We have thousands of six-question quizzes to try. Choose from collocations, synonyms, phrasal verbs and more. More results nearby delivery See all results Pictures of the day What are these? Click on the pictures to check. Explore topics Military Cleaning Human Business basics See all topics Word of the day overplay to make something seem more important than it is Cookie Policy Privacy Policy Copyright and legal Pearson Languages About LDOCE How to use