next
Part of speech: adj
det
adv
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: games
gaming
law
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”).
Base: nigh
Affixes: -est
Inflected forms:
form: neest
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: neist
pos: adj
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: nex
pos: adj
tags: alternative
archaic
form: nex'
pos: adj
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: neest
pos: det
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: neist
pos: det
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: nex
pos: det
tags: alternative
archaic
form: nex'
pos: det
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: neest
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: neist
pos: adv
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: nex
pos: adv
tags: alternative
archaic
form: nex'
pos: adv
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: neest
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
form: neist
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Scotland
form: nex
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: nex'
pos: noun
tags: alternative
dialectal
Senses:
gloss: Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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.
Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm.
gloss: Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
obsolete
examples: A prophet I, Madam; and I speak the truth the next way: […]
The road to resolution, lies by doubt:
"The next way home's the farthest way about."
gloss: Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: 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
The man was driven by his love for money and his desire to become the next Bill Gates.
"[…]You patriotic?" / "I guess so, as much as the next guy," I said, wondering how the hell I could shake him.
gloss: Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
pos: adj
tags: not-comparable
examples: next friend
And if a man purchase land in fee simple and die without issue, he which is his next cousin collaterall of the whole blood, how farre so ever he be from him in degree, (de quel pluis long degree qu'il soit), may inherite and have the land ...
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, ...
If it be a property, it is a new species, unknown to the civil law, the common law, and the statute law; there is no medium, it must be, if it goes to her next kin, because it is absolute property in her. There can be no distribution of personal property ...
gloss: Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.
pos: det
examples: Next week would be a good time to meet.
I'll know better next time.
gloss: 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.
pos: det
examples: 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?
gloss: In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: They live in the next closest house.
It's the next best thing to ice cream.
gloss: In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
pos: adv
tags: conjunctive
not-comparable
examples: First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.
gloss: On the first subsequent occasion.
pos: adv
tags: not-comparable
examples: Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
When we next meet, you'll be married.
gloss: The one that follows after this one.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.
gloss: Next match
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
examples: gg team, Wanna play next?
Synonyms: subsequent
Antonyms: previous
previously
Related words: last
this
this coming
week
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: pastaj
lang: Albanian
word: mas anej (gheg)
lang: Dutch
word: nabij
lang: Dutch
word: bij
lang: Dutch
word: vlakbij
lang: Esperanto
word: apude
lang: Esperanto
word: proksime
lang: Finnish
word: seuraavaksi
lang: Ancient Greek
word: εἶτα
roman: eîta
lang: Hungarian
word: legközelebb
lang: Hungarian
word: második
lang: Hungarian
word: eggyel
lang: Italian
word: accanto
lang: Italian
word: vicino
lang: Māori
word: panuku
lang: Norwegian
word: nærmest
lang: Polish
word: następnie
lang: Portuguese
word: perto
lang: Portuguese
word: próximo
lang: Russian
word: вблизи́
roman: vblizí
lang: Russian
word: во́зле
roman: vózle
lang: Russian
word: о́коло
roman: ókolo
lang: Russian
word: по́дле
roman: pódle
lang: Russian
word: ря́дом
roman: rjádom
lang: Russian
word: по сосе́дству
roman: po sosédstvu
lang: Spanish
word: junto a
lang: Spanish
word: al lado de
lang: Spanish
word: a continuación
lang: Swahili
word: kando
lang: Swedish
word: näst