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Adverb

close to (comparative closer to, superlative closest to)Category:English lemmas#CLOSETOCategory:English adverbs#CLOSETOCategory:English multiword terms#CLOSETOCategory:English entries with incorrect language header#CLOSETOCategory:Pages with entries#CLOSE%20TOCategory:Pages with 1 entry#CLOSE%20TO

1. (of quantifiers of nouns) Approximately.

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   It lasted close to an hour.Category:English terms with usage examples#CLOSETO

   It rained for close to forty days and forty nights.Category:English terms with usage examples#CLOSETO

2. (informalCategory:English informal terms#CLOSETO) Nearly; almost.

   The project is close to finished.Category:English terms with usage examples#CLOSETO

Preposition

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1. Near.

   The chair was close to the window.Category:English terms with usage examples#CLOSETO

   She looked fraught and close to tears.Category:English terms with usage examples#CLOSETO

   • 1879, R[ichard] J[efferies], chapter 1, in The Amateur Poacher, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., […], →OCLC:

     They burned the old gun that used to stand in the dark corner up in the garret, close to the stuffed fox that always grinned so fiercely. Perhaps the reason why he seemed in such a ghastly rage was that he did not come by his death fairly. Otherwise his pelt would not have been so perfect.

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   • 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

     Old Applegate, in the stern, just set and looked at me, and Lord James, amidship, waved both arms and kept hollering for help. I took a couple of everlasting big strokes and managed to grab hold of the skiff's rail, close to the stern.

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Anagrams

• coletos, coolest, ocelots