nearer

nearer

adj., adv. nearer to (the park is nearer to our hotel than it is to yours; which stop is nearest to Albert Hall?)

USAGE NOTE: When near is an adjective, it is not used in the collocation *near to. (Compare close to.)

Combinatory dictionary. 2013.

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