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next

adj
/nɛkst/

Etymology

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), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next to”), German nächster (“next”), Yiddish נעקסט (nekst, “next”), Danish næste (“next”), Elfdalian nest (“by, near”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”). Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).

  1. inherited from *nēhwist✻ — “nearest, closest”
  2. inherited from nīehsta
  3. inherited from nexte

Definitions

  1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening

    Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.

    • The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.
    • She lives a mile or two away, in the next village.
    • I live in the next house to the Grand Hotel.

  2. Nearest in order, succession, or rank

    Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.

    • Please turn to the next page.
    • On Wednesday next, I'm going to Spain.
    • the next chapter; the next week; the Sunday next before Easter

  3. Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)

    • next friend
    • Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...
  4. ›+ 7 more definitions

    1. Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.

      • Next week would be a good time to meet.
      • I'll know better next time.

    2. Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon

      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.
      • When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week?

    3. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.

      • They live in the next closest house.
      • It's the next best thing to ice cream.

    4. On the first subsequent occasion.

      • Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
      • When we next meet, you'll be married.

    5. On the side of

      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:[…]
      • All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall.
      • The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians […] .

    6. The one that follows after this one.

      • Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
      • There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.

    7. Next match

      • gg team, Wanna play next?

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA