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nearer
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adverbial nearer has 1 sense
- nearer(r = adv.all) closer, nigher - (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance; "come closer, my dear!"; "they drew nearer"; "getting nearer to the true explanation"
CIDE DICTIONARY
nearer, adj.
less distant in space; as, we walked to the nearer house. [WordNet 1.5]
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