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Webster 1913 Edition


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(nĕkst)
,
Adj.
,
sup
erl.
of
Nigh
.
[AS.
nēhst
,
niéhst
,
nȳhst
, superl. of
neáh
nigh. See
Nigh
.]
1.
Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.
Chaucer.
Her princely guest
Was
next
her side; in order sat the rest.
Dryden.
Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the
next
way.
Bunyan.
2.
Nearest in time;
as, the
next
day or hour
.
3.
Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.
None could tell whose turn should be the
next
.
Gay.
4.
Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation;
as, the
next
heir was an infant
.
The man is near of kin unto us, one of our
next
kinsmen.
Ruth ii. 20.
Next is usually followed by to before an object, but to is sometimes omitted. In such cases next in considered by many grammarians as a preposition.
Next friend
(Law)
,
one who represents an infant, a married woman, or any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law.

Next

,
adv.
In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately succeeding;
as, this man follows
next
.

Webster 1828 Edition


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NEXT

,
Adj.
1.
Nearest in place; that has no object intervening between it and some other; immediately preceding, or preceding in order. We say, the next person before or after another.
Her princely guest was next her side, in order sat the rest.
2.
Nearest in time; as the next day or hour; the next day before or after Easter.
3.
Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right or relation; as, one man is next to another in excellence; one is next in kindred; one is next in rank or dignity. Assign the property to nim who has the next claim.

NEXT

,
adv.
At the time or turn nearest or immediately succeeding. It is not material who follows next.

Definition 2024


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English

Alternative forms

  • neest (dialectal)
  • neist (Scotland)
  • nex' (dialectal)

Adjective

next (not comparable)

  1. Following in a sequence.
  2. Being closer to the present location than all other items.
    • 1913, Joseph C. Lincoln, chapter 8, in Mr. Pratt's Patients:
      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. Then he put the coffee pot on the stove and rummaged out a loaf of dry bread and some hardtack.
  3. Nearest following (of date, time, space or order).
    • 2013 July 20, Out of the gloom”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:
      [Rural solar plant] schemes are of little help to industry or other heavy users of electricity. Nor is solar power yet as cheap as the grid. For all that, the rapid arrival of electric light to Indian villages is long overdue. When the national grid suffers its next huge outage, as it did in July 2012 when hundreds of millions were left in the dark, look for specks of light in the villages.
    The next week is full.
  4. (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
    • 1945, Yank: the army weekly, volume 4, page 96:
      " [] You patriotic?" / "I guess so, as much as the next guy," I said, wondering how the **** I could shake him.

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Determiner

next

  1. 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 to seven days (one week) in the future.
    The party is next Tuesday; that is, not this Tuesday, but nine days from now.

Adverb

next (not comparable)

  1. In a time, place or sequence closest or following.
    They live in the next closest house.
    It's the next best thing to ice cream.
    Next, we stripped off the old paint.
  2. On the first subsequent occasion,
    Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
    When we next meet, you'll be married.

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Preposition

next

  1. On the side of; next to.
    • 1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:
      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 [] .

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Noun

next (uncountable)

  1. The one that follows after this one.
    Next, please, don't hold up the queue!

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Statistics

Most common English words before 1923: thy · less · till · #256: next · poor · present · water

Kurdish

Noun

next m

  1. A bride price (among Kurds, customarily given to the family of the bride by the family of the groom)

Synonyms