next
Language: English
Part of speech: prep
Pronunciation: enpr: nĕkst
ipa: /nɛkst/
rhymes: -ɛkst
Forms: form: neest
form: neist
form: nex
form: nex'
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, Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).
Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
Senses: examples: text: D is so dainty a letter, that she admits no other consonant next her but R:[…]
ref: 1660, James Howell, Lexicon Tetraglotton, an English-French-Italian-Spanish Dictionary: […] By the Labours, and Lucubrations of James Howell, page 117:
text: All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall.
ref: 1822, The Pamphleteer, page 118:
text: 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 […] .
ref: 1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2
text: Photographs indicate that the southern terminals of the ditch system next the west gate may be in echelon, whilst those marginal to the east gate may be slightly inturned.
ref: 1986, University of Wales Board of Celtic Studies, Bwletin Y Bwrdd Gwybodau Celtaidd - Volume 33, page 413:
glosses: On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from all parts of speech
word: as modern as next week
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word: as the next girl
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word: as the next guy
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word: as the next person
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word: a week from next Tuesday
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word: better luck next time
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word: boy-next-door
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word: boy next door
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word: cleanliness is next to godliness
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word: Cley next the Sea
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word: one day to the next
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word: girl next door
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word: girl-next-door
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word: knock someone into the middle of next week
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word: modern as next week
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word: next big thing
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word: nextborn
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word: next-day
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word: next-door
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word: next door
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word: next-gen
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word: next-generation
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word: next generation
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word: next generation networking
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word: nexting
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word: nextish
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word: next-level
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word: next level
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word: next life
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word: nextly
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word: nextness
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word: next next
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word: next store
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word: next thing one knows
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word: next time
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word: next-to-last
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word: next to last
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word: next tomorrow
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word: next to nothing
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word: next to no time
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word: next up
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word: next week
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word: next world
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word: next year
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word: you next Thursday
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word: you next Tuesday
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word: take it to the next level
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word: take to the next level
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word: the next best thing
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word: the next day
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word: until next time
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word: Wells-next-the-Sea
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word: whatever next
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word: what next
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word: what's next