Usually means: Near in space, time, relationship.
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General (21 matching dictionaries)
  1. closely: Merriam-Webster
  2. closely: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. closely: Collins English Dictionary
  4. closely: Vocabulary.com
  5. Closely, closely: Wordnik
  6. closely: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. closely: Wiktionary
  8. Closely, closely: Dictionary.com
  9. Closely: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  10. closely: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  11. closely: FreeDictionary.org
  12. closely: TheFreeDictionary.com
  13. closely: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  14. closely: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Closely: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. closely: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. closely: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. closely: Rhymezone
  19. closely: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. closely: Legal dictionary
  2. closely: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. closely: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. closely: Idioms

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adverb:  In a close manner.
adverb:  (obsolete) secretly; privately

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