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ny

ny is the obsolete spelling of nigh.

Meaning of nigh

Verb

nigh (third-person singular simple present nighs, present participle nighing, simple past and past participle nighed)

  1. (ambitransitive) to draw nigh (to); to approach; to come near
    • When the charnel-eyed Pale Horse has nighed1924, Thomas Hardy, He Resolves to Say No More

See all 7 meanings of nigh

Proper noun capitalized: NY

NY

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of New York: a state of the United States.
  2. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of New York: a city in the state of New York, United States.
  3. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of North Yorkshire: a county of England.

Synonyms of ny

Forms of ny

alternative formN.Y.
alternative formN. Y.

Words formed from ny

Questions about ny

What is ny the obsolete spelling of?
Ny is the obsolete spelling of nigh.
What part of speech is ny?
Ny is a proper noun.

Words near ny in the dictionary

  1. NWTCA
  2. NWTSC
  3. nxm
  4. NXN
  5. nxt
  6. ny
  7. Ny-Ålesund
  8. nya
  9. nyaa
  10. Nyabarongo
  11. nyabinghi

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Adapted from Wiktionary: ny (page history and authors); NY (page history and authors); nigh (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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