nearest
Verweise zur Wortformnear
Aussprachen (2)
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/ˈnɪəɹɪst/
Hinweise zur Aussprache
- Received-Pronunciation
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/ˈnɪɹɪst/
Hinweise zur Aussprache
- General-American
Präposition
Closest to.
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Mercury is the planet nearest the Sun.
Weitere Beispiele (1)
Fastening one end of this at that point of the trunk of the tree which was nearest the peg, he unrolled it till it reached the peg and thence further unrolled it, in the direction already established by the two points of the tree and the peg, for the distance of fifty feet[…]
Adverb
(superlative of ‘near’ or ‘close’) within the shortest distance
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that was the time he came nearest to death