NIGHER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does nigher mean? 

• NIGHER (adverb)
  The adverb NIGHER has 1 sense:

1. (comparative of 'near' or 'close') within a shorter distance

  Familiarity information: NIGHER used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NIGHER (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(comparative of 'near' or 'close') within a shorter distance

Synonyms:

closer; nearer; nigher

Context example:

getting nearer to the true explanation

Domain usage:

comparative; comparative degree (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb)

 Context examples 

It seems to me that she might, by merely sitting quietly at his side, saying little and looking less, get nigher his heart.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

If ever she should come a wandering back, I wouldn't have the old place seem to cast her off, you understand, but seem to tempt her to draw nigher to 't, and to peep in, maybe, like a ghost, out of the wind and rain, through the old winder, at the old seat by the fire. Then, maybe, Mas'r Davy, seein' none but Missis Gummidge there, she might take heart to creep in, trembling; and might come to be laid down in her old bed, and rest her weary head where it was once so gay.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)