close¹ /klōs/

1. Near, in time or place (often with to or by)
2. Shut up or shut tight with no opening
3. Strictly confined
4. Narrow
5. Nearly equal or even
6. Near the surface, short
7. Tight in fit
8. Compact
9. Crowded, dense
10. Stifling, unventilated, airless
11. Intimate
12. Stingy, miserly
13. (of money, finance, etc) difficult to obtain
14. Private, restricted to a certain class or group
15. Reserved
16. Hidden or secluded
17. Secret
18. Thorough, detailed
19. Rigorous, careful
20. (of a vowel) pronounced with slight opening, or with the tongue tense

1. In a close manner or position
2. Tightly
3. Nearly
4. Densely
5. Secretly

1. An enclosed place
2. A small enclosed field
3. A small, quiet, esp dead-end road
4. A narrow passage off a street, esp leading to a tenement stairway or courtyard
5. The precinct of a cathedral

closeˈly adverb

closeˈness noun

close-bandˈed adjective

Closely united

closeˈ-barred adjective

Firmly closed

close-bodˈied adjective

Fitting close to the body

Close Brethren plural noun

The Exclusive Brethren, a branch of the Plymouth Brethren whose members will not associate with (eg eat in company with) people outside their group

close call noun

A narrow escape

close company noun

A firm controlled by five, or fewer, people who own a majority of the shares

close corporation noun

A corporation which fills up its own vacancies, without outside interference

closeˈ-cropped adjective

1. (of hair) cut very short
2. (of grass, etc) cut, or eaten by animals, down to the level of the ground

close-coupˈled adjective

(of two parts) attached close together

close encounter noun

A direct personal confrontation with an extraterrestrial being (also figurative)

close-fistˈed or close-handˈed adjective

Penurious, covetous

closeˈ-fitting adjective

(of clothes) designed to fit tightly

closeˈ-grained adjective

With the particles, fibres, etc close together, compact

close harmony noun (music)

Harmony in which the notes of chords lie close together

closeˈ-hauled adjective (nautical)

(in trim for) sailing as near as possible towards where the wind is coming from

closeˈhead noun (Scot)

The entrance to a close, or the gossips that congregate there

close-inˈ adjective

Positioned or operating at a small distance

closeˈ-knit adjective

(of communities, etc) closely connected, bound together

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