Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.
Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
Please turn to the next page.
Nearest in relationship. (.
next friend
Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.
Next week would be a good time to meet.
Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
The party is next Tuesday; that is, not tomorrow, but eight days from now.
In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
They live in the next closest house.
On the first subsequent occasion.
Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
D is so dainty a letter, that she admits no other consonant next her but R:[…]
The one that follows after this one.
Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
Next match
gg team, Wanna play next?
From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah (“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), c...
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