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next door

next door adverb: in an adjacent building, room or place.

Adverb

next door (not comparable)

  1. In an adjacent building, room or place.
    • He lives next door but one (= two houses from mine).
    • "Yeh know Tom Jamison, he lives next door t' me up home.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

Adjective

next door (comparative more next door, superlative most next door)

  1. (postpositional, usually) That is in an adjacent place; that is located next door.
    • Try the place next door.

Preposition

next door

  1. (dialectal) Next door to.
    • Next door the kirk was an olden tower, built in the time of the Roman Catholics [...].1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 17

next door meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

next door in Tamil

அயலகம்

next door in Urdu

ہم سایہ, ملحق

next door in Malayalam

next door
അയൽ ayal

Forms of next door

Adverb
alternative formnext-door
alternative formnextdoor
Adjective
comparativemore next door
superlativemost next door

Questions about next door

What does next door mean?
Next door means in an adjacent building, room or place.
What is next door in Tamil?
Next door in Tamil is அயலகம். See Next door meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is next door?
Next door can be an adverb, an adjective or a preposition.

Words near next door in the dictionary

  1. nexopathy
  2. NEXPTIME
  3. next
  4. next big thing
  5. next big things
  6. next door
  7. Next Eleven
  8. next friend
  9. next friends
  10. next generation
  11. next generation networking

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: next door (page history and authors); next door (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); next door (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); അയൽ (Malayalam) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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