See nigh in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "dobližavam se",
"sense": "to approach",
"word": "доближавам се"
},
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},
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"sense": "to approach",
"word": "lähestyä"
},
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"lang": "French",
"sense": "to approach",
"word": "s’approcher"
},
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"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "to approach",
"word": "közeleg"
},
{
"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to approach",
"word": "eljön"
},
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"sense": "to approach",
"word": "közelg"
},
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"code": "hu",
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"sense": "to approach",
"word": "eljő"
},
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"code": "fa",
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"sense": "to approach",
"word": "نزدیک شدن"
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{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
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"sense": "to approach",
"word": "близиться"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "približátʹsja",
"sense": "to approach",
"word": "приближа́ться"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "to approach",
"word": "närma"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "to approach",
"word": "yaklaşmak"
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}
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"word": "fornigh"
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"word": "nighness"
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"word": "nigh on"
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"word": "nigh-well"
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"text": "So, after a spell, he decided to make the best of it and shoved us into the front parlor.[…]It looked like a tomb and smelt pretty nigh as musty and dead-and-gone.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "2017 July 16, Brandon Nowalk, “Chickens and dragons come home to roost on Game Of Thrones (newbies)”, in The Onion AV Club:",
"text": "Hell of a surprise in the seventh season premiere of Game Of Thrones. Arya Stark, fresh off a nigh Cersei-level ambush of the Frey household, comes upon a small campfire surrounded by fresh-faced red cloaks.",
"type": "quote"
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"code": "bg",
"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "počti",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "почти"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "téměř"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "skoro"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "lähes"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "melkein"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "miltei"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "beinahe"
},
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"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "nahezu"
},
{
"code": "grc",
"lang": "Ancient Greek",
"roman": "ánkhi",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "ἄγχι"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "in aice"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "i gcóngar"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "i bhfogas"
},
{
"code": "ang",
"lang": "Old English",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "fornēah"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nazdik",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "نزدیک"
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{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "blisko"
},
{
"code": "pl",
"lang": "Polish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "niebawem"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "počtí",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "почти́"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "priblizítelʹno",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "приблизи́тельно"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "cercano"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "nästan"
},
{
"code": "sv",
"lang": "Swedish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "närpå"
},
{
"code": "tr",
"lang": "Turkish",
"sense": "almost; nearly",
"word": "neredeyse"
}
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"word": "nigh"
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"ref": "1661-5, Thomas Salusbury (translator), Galileo Galilei, Dialogue concerning the Two Chief World Systems, 1632",
"text": "When the Moon is horned […] is it not ever nigh the Sun?"
},
{
"ref": "1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide:",
"text": "The cottage stood nigh the burn, in a little garden, with lilyoaks and grosart bushes lining the pathway.",
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"code": "ar",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "bi-l-qurb min",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "بُالْقُرب مِن"
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"code": "arz",
"lang": "Arabic",
"roman": "ʔurayeb men",
"sense": "near, close to",
"tags": [
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"word": "قريب من"
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"code": "bg",
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"roman": "nablizo",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "наблизо"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "při"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "u"
},
{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "vedle"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "lähellä"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "liki"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "nazdik",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "نزدیک"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "blízko",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "бли́зко"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "vózle",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "во́зле"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "ókolo",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "о́коло"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "rjádom",
"sense": "near, close to",
"word": "ря́дом"
}
],
"word": "nigh"
}
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