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say it: NIR-bahy
nearby is an adjective and adverb meaning "close at hand". It is pronounced /ˈnɪɹˈbaɪ/ — NIR-bahy. It carries 2 recorded senses.
not far away in relative terms
“she works nearby”
“the planets orbiting nearby are Venus and Mars”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for nearby come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.