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Etymology

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Fromclose +‎-ly.

Pronunciation

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Adverb

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closely (comparativecloselierormoreclosely,superlativecloseliestormostclosely)

  1. In aclose manner.
    Finnish and Estonian areclosely related languages.
    The borderline between East and West Berlin was veryclosely guarded.
    The chairs are tooclosely spaced; could you move them apart?
    • 1946, Joseph Augustine Cushman,The larger fossil Foraminifera of the Panama Canal Zone:
      Test large, cylindrical, early portionclosely coiled and always completely involute, later and larger portion uncoiled[…]
    • 2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in(Please provide the book title or journal name)‎[1]:
      “King Homer” follows the story of King Kongclosely, with Mr. Burns taking the freakishly over-sized King Homer from his native Africa, where he lives proud as a simian god, to the United States, where he is an initially impressive but ultimately rather limited Broadway attraction.
  2. (obsolete)secretly;privately

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in a close manner
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