next door

See also: nextdoor and next-door

English

Alternative forms

next-door, nextdoor

Adverb

next door (not comparable)

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.

Translations

in the adjacent home or place

Chinese:
Mandarin: 隔壁 (zh) (gébì)
Finnish: naapurissa

Greek: δίπλα (el) (dípla)
Italian: accanto a (it)

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.

Related terms

Translations

that is in the adjacent place

Chinese:
Mandarin: 隔壁 (zh) (gébì)
Finnish: naapuri- (fi), lähi- (fi), viereinen

Greek: διπλανός (el) (diplanós)
Italian: please add this translation if you can
Welsh: drws nesa

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 [...].

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