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, Stephen Crane, chapter X, in The Red Badge of Courage: An Episode of the American Civil War, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC, 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)

• Czech: vedle (cs)
• Finnish: naapurissa
• French: à côté (fr)
• German: nebenan (de)
• Greek: δίπλα (el) (dípla)
• Ingrian: rinnaal
• Italian: accanto a (it)
• Russian: по сосе́дству (ru) (po sosédstvu), ря́дом (ru) (rjádom)
• Swedish: vägg i vägg (sv)
• 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)

• Czech: vedlejší (cs), sousední (cs)
• Finnish: naapuri- (fi), lähi- (fi), viereinen (fi)
• Greek: διπλανός (el) (diplanós)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Russian: сосе́дний (ru) m (sosédnij)
• Swedish: vägg i vägg (sv)
• Welsh: drws nesa

Preposition

next door

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

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