closer

1. 1.

   (comparative of `near' or `close') within a shorter distance

   “come closer, my dear!”

   “they drew nearer”

   “getting nearer to the true explanation”

   Synonymsnearernigher

   comparative

Other forms of closer

plural

closers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about closer

What does closer mean?

closer means "a person who closes something". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in closer?

closer has 2 syllables: clo-ser. The stress falls on "clo". In IPA it is /ˈkloʊsɚ/.

What is another word for closer?

Close synonyms include finisher, nearer, nigher. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is closer a common word?

closer is banded "Core" — among the few thousand words that carry most english. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.