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CLOSELY KNIT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does closely knit mean? 

CLOSELY KNIT (adjective)
  The adjective CLOSELY KNIT has 1 sense:

1. held together as by social or cultural tiesplay

  Familiarity information: CLOSELY KNIT used as an adjective is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLOSELY KNIT (adjective)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Held together as by social or cultural ties

Synonyms:

close-knit; closely knit

Context example:

the group was closely knit

Similar:

close (close in relevance or relationship)


 Context examples 


So the young pair shook hands upon it, and then paced happily on again, feeling that their pleasant home was more homelike because they hoped to brighten other homes, believing that their own feet would walk more uprightly along the flowery path before them, if they smoothed rough ways for other feet, and feeling that their hearts were more closely knit together by a love which could tenderly remember those less blest than they.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)



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