near-by
Word Rarity
Common
Frequency: Zipf frequency 5.27 in modern English
11
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
3
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Alternative form of nearby.
Example Sentences
- "For a time he kept to the ground, but finally, discovering no spoor indicative of near-by meat, he took to the trees."
- "He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home."
- "Marge recently dressed Joanne Dru ranch style during the making of Howard Hawks’ Red River. Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches to the Arizona location where the picture was being shot."
- "Los Angeles itself was just emerging from a long period of glacial fundamentalism, its ice age of Protestant orthodoxy. In near-by Hollywood, the movie colony was in its “purple period,” full of scandal and commotion."
Inflected Forms
more near-by (comparative)
most near-by (superlative)