next door
English
Adverb
- In an adjacent home 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.
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Translations
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 authorities recommend the hyphenated form next-door.
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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:
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