near-by

comparative more near-by · superlative most near-by

1. alternativeAlternative form of nearby.

   For a time he kept to the ground, but finally, discovering no spoor indicative of near-by meat, he took to the trees.

   1913 June–December, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Back to the Primitive”, in The Return of Tarzan, New York, N.Y.: A[lbert] L[evi] Burt Company, […], published March 1915, →OCLC, page 191

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   He had the car pushed to a near-by stable, amidst the mixed emotions of the little crowd, and next day he had it hauled home.

   1918, Henry B[lake] Fuller, On the Stairs, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Hougton Mifflin Company; Cambridge, Mass.: The Riverside Press, →OCLC, part V, section I, page 148

   Marge recently dressed Joanne Dru ranch style during the making of Howard Hawks’ Red River. Miss Dru, in old-style calicoes and ginghams, felt grubby beside the dudes and dudesses who galloped over from near-by ranches to the Arizona location where the picture was being shot.

   1947 July 26, Jim Marshall, “Glamor Hits the Range”, in Walter Davenport, editor, Collier’s, volume 120, number 4, Springfield, Oh.: The Crowell-Collier Publishing Company, page 34, column 1

   Los Angeles itself was just emerging from a long period of glacial fundamentalism, its ice age of Protestant orthodoxy. In near-by Hollywood, the movie colony was in its “purple period,” full of scandal and commotion.

   1949, Carey McWilliams, “Aimee Semple McPherson: ‘Sunlight in My Soul’”, in Isabel Leighton, editor, The Aspirin Age, 1919-1941, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, page 60