Nearer

Definitions: Nearer

Nearer

Adjective

1. (comparative of `near') being the one of two that is less distant in space; "we walked to the nearer house".

Adverb

1. (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance; "come closer, my dear!"; "they drew nearer"; "getting nearer to the true explanation".

Date "nearer" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Synonyms: Nearer

Synonyms: closer (adv), nigher (adv). (additional references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	No one lives any nearer than town (The Haunting; writing credit: David Self) I wouldn't have had it any other way. But there are times when suddenly you realize you're nearer the end than the beginning. (The Bridge on the River Kwai; writing credit: Pierre Boulle) The power its getting nearer. Can't you feel it? The power is immense. (Exorcist II: The Heretic; writing credit: William Goodhart)
Lyrics	Cause it's getting nearer, it soon will be with you ("Peace Train"; performing artist: Cat Stevens) You know the nearer your destination ("Slip Slidin' Away"; performing artist: PAUL SIMON)
Movie/TV Titles	Nearer My God to Thee (1917)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Domain	Title
Books	A day's march nearer home; the war history from Alamein to VE Day based on the War Cabinet papers of 1942 to 1945 (reference) Gateway to Joy: Reflections That Draw Su Nearer to God (reference) Gustave Baumann: Nearer to Art (reference) Moving Nearer to Heaven: The Illusions and Disillusions of Migrants to Scenic Rural Places (reference) Nearer Nature (reference) (more book examples)

Music	Nearer (reference) Nearer My God to Thee (reference) Nearer to the Sun (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Author	Quotation
Francois De La Rochefoucauld	We are nearer loving those who hate us than those who love us more than we wish.
	Our enemies approach nearer to truth in their judgments of us than we do ourselves.
James Montgomery	Yet nightly pitch my moving tent, a day's march nearer home.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe	Difficulties increase the nearer we approach the goal.
John Heywood	The nearer to the church, the further from God.
Molinos	Thou are never at any time nearer to God than when under tribulation; which he permits for the purifications and beautifying of thy soul.
Plato	Poetry comes nearer to vital truth than history.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	I have here rated the improved land very low, in making its product but as ten to one, when it is much nearer an hundred to one: for I ask, whether in the wild woods and uncultivated waste of America, left to nature, without any improvement, tillage or husbandry, a thousand acres yield the needy and wretched inhabitants as many conveniencies of life, as ten acres of equally fertile land do in Devonshire, where they are well cultivated? Before the appropriation of land, he who gathered as much of the wild fruit, killed, caught, or tamed, as many of the beasts, as he could; he that so imployed his pains about any of the spontaneous products of nature, as any way to alter them from the state which nature put them in, by placing any of his labour on them, did thereby acquire a propriety in them: but if they perished, in his possession, without their due use; if the fruits rotted, or the venison putrified, before he could spend it, he offended against the common law of nature, and was liable to be punished; he invaded his neighbour's share, for he had no right, farther than his use called for any of them, and they might serve to afford him conveniencies of life. (Second Treatise of Government)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	She is still nearer.
A Christmas Carol	Dickens, Charles	Bob trembled, and got a little nearer to the ruler.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	The old man, on the other hand, had brought himself nearer to her level, or perhaps below it, by the revenge which he had stooped for.
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	Madeleine, lying almost flat under the fearful weight, was twice seen to try in vain to bring his elbows and knees nearer together.
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man	Joyce, James	Rrm... rrm... rrm... Ah! without a possibility of ever approaching nearer.
Grapes of Wrath	Steinbeck, John	And now in the great distance a siren screamed up the scale and dropped, and it screamed again, nearer this time.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	Both place and time were changed, and I dwelt nearer to those parts of the universe and to those eras in history which had most attracted me.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In this form of tremor, beginning a voluntary movement, such as reaching for a book, causes a trembling that affects the body part being used and that worsens as the individual gets nearer to the desired object. (references)
Business		During the last 5-6 years, European shampoo manufacturers' strategy was to move their production facilities nearer to their consumers, some of them establishing their production facilities in Russia. (references)
Economic History	Japan	Japanese investment overseas dropped in JFY00, but the overall ratio of inward to outward FDI remained nearer OECD average levels. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	We have objects of useful investigation nearer home, and to which our cares may be more beneficially applied.
John F. Kennedy	1961-1963	Each day we draw nearer the hour of maximum danger, as weapons spread and hostile forces grow stronger.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Nearer" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 54.73% of the time. "Nearer" is used about 1,404 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adverb (general)	54.73%	768	8,957
Adjective (comparative)	33.38%	469	12,605
Preposition (except "of")	11.89%	167	24,143
Total	100.00%	1,404	N/A

Expressions using "nearer": a nearer road ♦ bring nearer ♦ come nearer ♦ draw nearer ♦ move nearer ♦ nearer and nearer. Additional references.
Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "nearer": ever-nearer.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "nearer"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Afrikaan		nader (approach). (various references)

Albanian		më afër dhe më afër (nearer and nearer). (various references)

Arabic		‏قريب (adjacent, akin, approaching, close, cognate, connection, connexion, contiguous, impending, kin, kinsman, near, nearby, next of kin, nigh, on familiar terms, propinquity, related, relational, relative, thereabout, thereabouts), ‏أقرب (closer, next). (various references)

Chinese		�"较近. (various references)

Czech		přistoupit (accede, approach, come nearer). (various references)

Dutch		nader (further, more precisely). (various references)

Esperanto		pli proksime, pli proksima. (various references)

Finnish		lähemmin (closer). (various references)

French		rapprocher (bring near, bring near to, bring nearer). (various references)

German		näher (closer, further, sewer, sooner). (various references)

Greek		πιο κοντός. (various references)

Hungarian		közelebbről megszemlél vmit (to get a nearer view of sg). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		接近 (approaching, drawing nearer, getting closer). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		せっき�" (approaching, drawing nearer, getting closer). (various references)

Korean		가까이 (Nearest). (various references)

Manx		sniessey (adjacent, next, proximate), niessey. (various references)

Pig Latin		earernay.(various references)

Portuguese		mais próximo (closer). (various references)

Romanian		nu te mai apropia (come no nearer), un drum mai scurt (a nearer road). (various references)

Russian		все ближе и ближе (nearer and nearer). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		bliže i bliže (nearer and nearer). (various references)

Spanish		atraer cerca (draw nearer), arrimar (abut, bring close, bring nearer, move up). (various references)

Swedish		närma sig (approach, approximate, bring nearer, close, draw on, lead up to, push). (various references)

Welsh		nes (till, until). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	propior, propius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Language	Date	Source	Romans Chapter 13, Verse 11
Greek (transliterated)	250 BC	Septuagint	Kai touto eidoteV ton kairon oti wra hmaV hdh ex upnou egerqhnai nun gar egguteron hmwn h swthria h ote episteusamen
Latin	405	Vulgate	Et hoc scientes tempus quia hora est iam nos de somno surgere nunc enim propior est nostra salus quam cum credidimus
Old English	990	West Saxon	And do þis þonne ge understandað andweorde tim. Seo tid is gecomen þonne ge fram swefan weccað, forþy ure hæl is nu near þonne mid þæm þe we ærest geleafdon.
Middle English	1395	Wyclif	And we knowen this tyme, that the our is now, that we rise fro sleep; for now oure heelthe is neer, than whanne we bileueden.
Renaissance English	1526	Tyndale	This also we knowe I mean the season howe that it is tyme that we shuld now awake oute of slepe. For now is oure salvacion nearer then when we beleved.
Jacobean English	1611	King James	And that, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Victorian English	1833	Webster	And this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep: for now is our salvation nearer than when we believed.
Basic English	1964	Ogden	See then that the time has come for you to be awake from sleep: for now is your salvation nearer than when you first had faith.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Language	Romans Chapter 13, Verse 11
Bulgarian	Един вярва, че може всичко да яде; а който е слаб във вярата яде само зеленчук.
Cebuano	¶ Ug gawas pa niini, kamo sayud kon unsa nang panahona karon, nga takna na karon nga kinahanglan managmata kamo gikan sa pagkatulog. Kay ang atong kaluwasan labaw pa ka haduol kanato karon kay sa diha nga bag-o pa kitang mitoo;
Chinese	再者、 � 們曉得現今就是該趁早睡 �' 的時候、 � 為我們得救、現今 �" 初信的時候更近了。
Croatian	To tim više što shvaæate ovaj èas: vrijeme je veæ da se oda sna prenemo jer nam je sada spasenje bliže nego kad povjerovasmo.
Danish	Og dette just, fordi I kende Tiden, at det alt er på Tide, at I skulle stå op af Søvne; thi nu er vor Frelse nærmere, end da vi bleve troende.
Dutch	En dit zeg ik te meer, dewijl wij de gelegenheid des tijds weten, dat het de ure is, dat wij nu uit den slaap opwaken; want de zaligheid is ons nu nader, dan toen wij eerst geloofd hebben.
Finnish	Ja tehkää tämä, koska tunnette tämän ajan, että jo on hetki teidän unesta nousta; sillä pelastus on nyt meitä lähempänä kuin silloin, kun uskoon tulimme.
French	Cela importe d`autant plus que vous savez en quel temps nous sommes: c`est l`heure de vous réveiller enfin du sommeil, car maintenant le salut est plus près de nous que lorsque nous avons cru.
German	Und weil wir solches wissen, nämlich die Zeit, daß die Stunde da ist, aufzustehen vom Schlaf (sintemal unser Heil jetzt näher ist, denn da wir gläubig wurden;
Haitian Creole	¶ Se sa menm pou nou fè, paske nou konnen ki jan tan an ye deyò a. Li lè pou nou leve soti nan dòmi, lè a sonnen, paske koulye a, lè pou n' fin delivre a pi pre nou pase lè nou te fèk mete konfyans lan.
Hungarian	Ezt pedig cselekedjétek, tudván az idõt, hogy ideje már, hogy az álomból felserkenjünk; mert most közelebb van hozzánk az idvesség, mint a mikor hívõkké lettünk.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari	Selain semuanya itu kalian tahu bahwa saat ini adalah saat bagimu untuk bangun dari tidur. Sebab waktunya untuk kita diselamatkan sudah lebih dekat sekarang ini daripada waktu kita baru mulai percaya.
Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama	Demikian pula sedang kamu mengetahui keadaan masa sekarang ini, bahwa waktunya sudah sampai, kamu patut bangun daripada tidur. Karena sekarang selamat itu makin terlebih dekat kepada kita daripada tatkala kita mulai masuk iman.
Italian	Questo voi farete, consapevoli del momento: è ormai tempo di svegliarvi dal sonno, perché la nostra salvezza è più vicina ora di quando diventammo credenti.
Korean	또 한 너 희 가 이 시 기 를 알 거 니 와 자 다 가 깰 때 가 벌 써 되 었 으 니 이 �" 이 � � 우 리 의 구 원 이 처 음 믿 을 때 보 다 가 까 �" 음 이 니 라
Latvian	Un izprotiet ðo laiku, jo mums jau pienâkusi stunda celties no miega; un mûsu pestîðana tagad ir tuvâk nekâ tad, kad kïuvâm ticîgi.
Maori	¶ Tenei ano hoki tetahi, e mohio ana tatou ki te taima, kua taka noa ake tenei te wa e ara ake ai koutou i te moe: kua tata ke hoki inaianei to tatou whakaoranga i to te wa i whakapono tuatahi ai tatou.
Norwegian	Og dette må vi gjøre, da vi kjenner tiden, at timen er kommet da vi skal våkne op av søvne; for frelsen er oss nærmere nu enn dengang vi kom til troen.
Portuguese	E isso fazei, conhecendo o tempo, que já é hora de despertardes do sono; porque a nossa salvação está agora mais perto de nós do que quando nos tornamos crentes.
Rumanian	Wi aceasta cu atkt mai mult, cu ckt wtiyi kn ce kmprejurqri ne aflqm: este ceasul sq vq treziyi kn sfkrwit din somn; cqci acum mkntuirea este mai aproape de noi deckt atunci cknd am crezut.
Shuar	¶ Ii Yámankamtaik Yus nekas Enentáimtusmiaj nui "Ii ti shiir ajasar tuke uwempratin ukunam átatui" tu Enentáimprachmashiaj~i. Antsu yamaikia nu tsawant yuntumsamtai Ashí Túrajnia nujai shintiarar Enentáimpratniuitji.
Spanish	Y haced esto conociendo el tiempo, que ya es hora de despertaros del sueño; porque ahora la salvación está más cercana de nosotros que cuando creímos.
Swahili	Zaidi ya hayo, ninyi mnajua tumo katika wakati gani: sasa ndio wakati wa kuamka usingizini; naam, wokovu wetu u karibu zaidi sasa kuliko wakati ule tulipoanza kuamini.
Swedish	Akten på allt detta, så mycket mer som I veten vad tiden lider, att stunden nu är inne för eder att vakna upp ur sömnen. Ty frälsningen är oss nu närmare, än då vi kommo till tro.
Thai	นอกจากนี้ท่านควรจะรู้กาลสมัยว่า บั�"นี้เป็นเวลาที่เราควรจะตื่นจากหลับแล้ว เพราะว่าเวลาที่เราจะรอ�"นั้นใกล้กว่าเวลาที่เราไ�"้เริ่มเชื่อนั้น
Ukrainian	¶ І це тому, що зна�"те час, що пора нам уже пробудитись від сну. Бо тепер спасіння ближче до нас, аніж тоді, коли ми ввірували.
Uma	¶ Hawe'ea toe kana tababehi, ompi', apa' ta'inca moto-mi napa to masipato' tababehi hi tempo toi. Memata-tamo ngkai poleta' -ta, apa' neo' rata-mi tempo-na Pue' Yesus tumai mpohore-ta ngkai dunia' to dada'a toi. Ngkai lomo' pepangala' -ta hi Pue' duu' tempo toi, kamoo-mohua' -mi tempo karataa Pue' Yesus toe.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings
	"Nearer" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: earer, enare, gearer, naire, nairver, narex, Nazarev, Neacra, neager, neare, neari, Nearnet, nearo, necare, negare, Nehari, neider, Neifer, Neikrug, neiler, nerr, neurere, Ngare, Niemayer, nienaber, Nogaret, nyereri, snearer, yearer. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "nearer" (pronounced ni"rer)
3	-i" r er	clearer, hearer, mirror, queerer, Shearer.
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: earner, reearn.
	Words within the letters "a-e-e-n-r-r"
	-1 letter: ranee, reran.
	-2 letters: earn, erne, near, rare, rear.
	-3 letters: ane, are, ear, era, ere, ern, err, nae, nee, ran, ree.
	-4 letters: ae, an, ar, en, er, na, ne, re.
	Words containing the letters "a-e-e-n-r-r"
	+1 letter: earners, learner, ravener, reearns, relearn, terrane, yearner.
	+2 letters: answerer, banterer, barrener, careener, darkener, darneder, engraver, enlarger, ensnarer, gardener, garnered, hankerer, hardener, harkener, larcener, learners, nearlier, overnear, panderer, parcener, prerenal, rareness, rattener, raveners, reasoner, recanter, recreant, reearned, regainer, reharden, relearns, relearnt, renature, retainer, taverner, terranes, wanderer, warrener, yearners.
	+3 letters: aberrance, aeronomer, answerers, baneberry, banterers, barrenest, bartender, careeners, careering, carpenter, carrageen, centraler, certainer, darkeners, easterner, engravers, enlargers, enrapture, ensnarers, entrainer, errancies, estranger, gardeners, generator, germander, gregarine, grenadier, hankerers, hardeners, harkeners, increaser, irredenta, larceners, launderer, maunderer, mercenary, merganser, nearshore, noncareer, nonreader, orangerie, overlearn, panderers, parceners, partnered, prewarned, ratteners, readorned, rearrange, reasoners, recanters, recreants, reearning, reengrave, reentrant, referenda, refrained, regainers, regearing, regranted, rehardens, rehearing, relearned, remainder, renatured, renatures, repairmen, repattern, rereading, retainers, retearing, retrained, revertant, saunterer, serenader, sharpener, slanderer, taverners, ternaries, treenware, unclearer, underrate, underwear, unreadier, venerator, veratrine, wanderers, warrantee, warreners.
	+4 letters: aberrances, abhorrence, adrenergic, adventurer, aeronomers, amenorrhea, antimerger, archentera, arrestment, barrenness, bartenders, calenderer, carabineer, carpenters, carrageens, carragheen, coparcener, dinnerware, dreariness, easterners, encourager, encroacher, enraptured, enraptures, entrainers, enumerator, errantries, estrangers, forewarned, fraternize, freelancer, freemartin, garnierite, gendarmery, generators, generatrix, germanders, greenheart, greensward, gregarines, grenadiers, increasers, intergrade, interlayer, interregna, interrenal, irredentas, irrelevant, jardiniere, launderers, malingerer, maneuverer, maunderers, mergansers, newsreader, nonreaders, orangeries, overlearns, parenteral, perineuria, praemunire, prearrange, prebendary, prefranked, prehearing, pretrained, promenader, rarenesses, realtering, reargument, rearmament, rearranged, rearranges, rebranched, rebranches, recreating, recreation, redreaming, reengraved, reengraves, reentrance, reentrants, regeneracy, regenerate, rehardened, rehearings, rehearsing, relearning, remainders, remunerate, renderable, reordained, reorganize, repapering, repatterns, reprobance, rereadings, restrained, restrainer, retransfer, retreading, retreatant, retreating, returnable, revertants, ringleader, ropedancer, saunterers, serenaders, sharpeners, slanderers, squanderer, strangered, threatener, transferee, transverse, travertine, trawlermen, treenwares, unbarbered, underrated, underrates, underreact, undertaker, underwater, unprepared, unremarked, unrewarded, venerators, veratrines, veterinary, wardenries, warrantees, waterborne, weimaraner.
	+5 letters: aberrancies, abhorrences, adventurers, afterburner, amenorrheas, amenorrheic, arborescent, archenteron, areocentric, arrangement, arrestments, baneberries, benchwarmer, bizarreness, brainteaser, breadwinner, calenderers, candleberry, carabineers, carabiniere, carpentered, carpentries, carrageenan, carrageenin, carragheens, catercorner, centerboard, centralizer, cerebrating, cerebration, cogenerator, conferrable, contravener, coparceners, copartnered, cranberries, dinnerwares, dundrearies, earthenware, encouragers, encroachers, enteroviral, entertainer, enumerators, ferrimagnet, ferromagnet, forbearance, fraternized, fraternizer, fraternizes, freelancers, freemartins, freemasonry, furtherance, garnierites, gendarmerie, generalizer, gerrymander, gingerbread, glengarries, governorate, graniteware, greenbacker, greenhearts, greenmailer, greenswards, harbingered, harebrained, heartbroken, hereinafter, hyperborean, incarcerate, inenarrable, inerrancies, intercrater, interdealer, intergraded, intergrades, interlarded, interlayers, interlinear, interrelate, interrogate, ironhearted, irrelevance, irrelevancy, itineraries, jardinieres, malingerers, maneuverers, mercenaries, mercenarily, mineralizer, natriureses, necromancer, neuropteran, neutralizer, newsreaders, northeaster, overarrange, overbearing, overearnest, overfearing, overgarment, overhearing, overlearned, overtrained, overwearing, paperhanger, parcenaries, partnerless, paternoster, peregrinate, performance, philanderer, praemunires, prearranged, prearranges, preaverring, preclearing, precreasing, prefreshman, prehearings, preordained, preterminal, pretreating, promenaders, reappearing, rearguments, rearmaments, rearresting, reasserting, reassertion, reassurance, recarpeting, recreations, recriminate, rectilinear, reembarking, reengraving, reentrances, referential, refrainment, refrangible, refrigerant, regathering, regenerable, regenerated, regenerates, regenerator, rehammering, rehardening, reincarnate, reinnervate, reinsurance, reintegrate, reiterating, reiteration, rejuvenator, remaindered, remarketing, remastering, remeasuring, remembrance, remonstrate, remunerated, remunerates, remunerator, renormalize, reoperating, reoperation, reorganized, reorganizer, reorganizes, reorientate, repatterned, reprimanded, reprobances, rereleasing, rerepeating, researching, reservation, respreading, restrainers, retargeting, rethreading, retrainable, retransfers, retranslate, retreatants, returnables, reverberant, reverential, reversional, ringleaders, ropedancers, sauerbraten, scaremonger, squanderers, streamliner, superaltern, superharden, supernature, supertanker, tetrahedron, threateners, trainbearer, transceiver, transferase, transferees, transferred, transferrer, transgender, transpierce, transportee, transverses, travertines, trencherman, unchartered, undercharge, underreacts, undertakers, unearmarked, unrehearsed, untraversed, veratridine, vulneraries, weatherworn, weimaraners, windbreaker.
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