next door

next door

See also: nextdoor and next-door

English

Alternative forms

• next-door, nextdoor

Adverb

next door (not comparable)

1. In an adjacent building, room or place.
   • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, page 102:

     "Yeh know Tom Jamison, he lives next door t' me up home.

Translations

in the adjacent home or place

Chinese: Mandarin: 隔壁 (zh) (gébì) Finnish: naapurissa French: à côté (fr) German: nebenan (de) Greek: δίπλα (el) (dípla) Italian: accanto a (it) Russian: по сосе́дству (ru) (po sosédstvu), ря́дом (ru) (rjádom) Welsh: drws nesaf

Adjective

next door (comparative more next door, superlative most next door)

1. (usually postpositive) That is in an adjacent place; that is located next door.

   Try the place next door.

Usage notes

• When used prepositively, before the noun it modifies, some educators recommend the hyphenated form next-door.

Related terms

• boy next door
• girl next door

Translations

that is in the adjacent place

Chinese: Mandarin: 隔壁 (zh) (gébì) Finnish: naapuri- (fi), lähi- (fi), viereinen (fi) Greek: διπλανός (el) (diplanós) Italian: please add this translation if you can Russian: сосе́дний (ru) m (sosédnij) Welsh: drws nesa

Preposition

next door

1. (dialectal) Next door to.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:

     Next door the kirk was an olden tower, built in the time of the Roman Catholics [...].