nearbyadverb, adjective
uk/ˌnɪəˈbaɪ/us/ˌnɪrˈbaɪ/B1 not far away:
If there's a café nearby, we could stop for a snack.
I noticed a policeman standing nearby.
We stopped at some nearby shops to buy some food.
More examples
- Water was pumped from a nearby lake in an attempt to damp down the flames.
- Thousands of fish were killed as a result of a discharge of poisonous chemicals from a nearby factory.
- The injured were taken to several nearby hospitals.
- A passing motorist stopped and gave her a lift to the nearby town.
- The explosion shattered nearby windows and wrecked two cars.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Closeness in distance and time
- a few/couple of steps idiom
- a hair's breadth idiom
- a stone's throw idiom
- ace
- anywhere
- anywhere near idiom
- eyeball to eyeball idiom
- face-to-face
- float around
- hand to hand idiom
- hard by
- proximity
- roof
- round the corner idiom
- shadow
- shout
- step
- stick together
- towards
- under the same roof idiom
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