near-by

See also: near by, and nearby

English

Adjective

near-by (comparative more near-by, superlative most near-by)

1. Alternative form of nearby.
   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.

   • 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:

     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.