With verbs of motion. Denoting approach to a place, thing, or person.

With reference to place or position: very near, nearby. Obsolete.

Nearer in space or time; nearer at hand. Also in proverbial phrases.

Near, close.

Near, in space or time; close; at hand. Also with noun or noun phrase as complement. (When used with complement, hend can be analysed as a…

Near.

In, or so as to be in, close proximity; near, nigh.

By the side; close by, near; = beside, adv. 1.

Beside, near, by.

By the side, by one's side. Hard by, close, near. archaic. †Rarely of time (see quot. 1380). Obsolete. (Mostly an elliptical use of the prep., or…

Near, close.

In or into one's presence; close in time or space. to bring on hand: to bring in, introduce. to nigh on hand: to draw near, approach. Obsolete.

Of position: Near, close at hand, in another's presence or immediate neighbourhood; occasionally after verbal nouns, as in dweller by, stander by…

Chiefly Scottish. Nigh; near; nearly; next. rare.

In this vicinity; nearby.

In phrases near at hand (also of time: cf. sense 7a), near together, †near-away.

Close by; at hand.

In, or so as to be in, close proximity; near. Frequently opposed to afar (now often humorously).