next door

See also: nextdoor and next-door

English

Alternative forms

• next-door, nextdoor

Adverb

next door (not comparable)

1. In an adjacent home 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)

• Finnish: naapurissa
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: δίπλα (el) (dípla)
• Italian: accanto a (it)

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)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Greek: διπλανός (el) (diplanós)
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• 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 [...].