next door

adverb

In an adjacent building, room or place.

“Try the place next door.”

Similar
in the adjacent housein the adjacent apartment
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Meanings

adverbnext door (not comparable)

alternative next-door · alternative nextdoor

  1. not comparableIn an adjacent building, room or place.

    He lives next door but one (= two houses from mine).

    1 more example

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

comparative more next door · superlative most next door · alternative next-door · alternative nextdoor

  1. postpositionalusuallyThat is in an adjacent place; that is located next door.

    Try the place next door.

preposition

alternative next-door · alternative nextdoor

  1. dialectalNext 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

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbat or in or to the adjacent residence

Similar
in the adjacent housein the adjacent apartment

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 隔壁, 隔壁
  • 隔壁 (gébì)in the adjacent home or place
  • 隔壁 (gébì)that is in the adjacent place
Czech vedle, vedlejší
  • vedlein the adjacent home or place
  • vedlejšíthat is in the adjacent place
  • sousedníthat is in the adjacent place
Finnish naapurissa, naapuri-
  • naapurissain the adjacent home or place
  • naapuri-that is in the adjacent place
  • lähi-that is in the adjacent place
  • viereinenthat is in the adjacent place
French à côté
  • à côtéin the adjacent home or place
German nebenan
  • nebenanin the adjacent home or place
Greek δίπλα, διπλανός
  • δίπλα (dípla)in the adjacent home or place
  • διπλανός (diplanós)that is in the adjacent place
Italian accanto a
  • accanto ain the adjacent home or place
Polish po sąsiedzku
  • po sąsiedzkuin the adjacent home or place
Russian по сосе́дству, ря́дом
  • по сосе́дству (po sosédstvu)in the adjacent home or place
  • ря́дом (rjádom)in the adjacent home or place
  • сосе́дний (sosédnij)that is in the adjacent place
Swedish vägg i vägg, vägg i vägg
  • vägg i väggin the adjacent home or place
  • vägg i väggthat is in the adjacent place
Welsh drws nesaf, drws nesa
  • drws nesafin the adjacent home or place
  • drws nesathat is in the adjacent place
Cite this entry
APA

next door. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/next%20door

MLA

“next door.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/next%20door. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “next door,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/next%20door.

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