Usually means: Closest in distance or relationship.
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General (15 matching dictionaries)
  1. nearest: Merriam-Webster
  2. nearest: Collins English Dictionary
  3. nearest: Vocabulary.com
  4. Nearest, nearest: Wordnik
  5. nearest: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. nearest: Wiktionary
  7. nearest: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. Nearest, nearest: Dictionary.com
  9. nearest: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. nearest: Rhymezone
  11. nearest: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. nearest: FreeDictionary.org
  13. nearest: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. nearest: TheFreeDictionary.com
  15. nearest: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nearest: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. nearest: Idioms

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Definitions from WordNet (nearest)

adjective:  (superlative of `near' or `nigh') most near
adverb:  (superlative of `near' or `close') within the shortest distance ("That was the time he came nearest to death")


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