next door
English
Alternative forms
Adverb
next door (not comparable)
- 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
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Adjective
next door (comparative more next door, superlative most next door)
- (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
Translations
that is in the adjacent place
Preposition
- (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 [...].
- 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17: