anear

See also: an ear

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)

Preposition

anear

  1. near
    • 1860, Isaac Taylor, “(please specify the page)”, in Ultimate Civilization and Other Essays, London: Bell and Daldy […], →OCLC:
      the measure of misery anear us
    • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner:
      And soon I heard a roaring wind: / It did not come anear; / But with its sound it shook the sails, / That were so thin and sere.
    • 1907, Helen Elizabeth Coolidge, Poems:
      As slowly, one by one, / The stars appear, / My burdened heart I lift, / And feel to God anear.

Quotations
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Verb

anear (third-person singular simple present anears, present participle anearing, simple past and past participle aneared)

  1. (obsolete) To approach

Adverb

anear

  1. (obsolete) nearly

Anagrams
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