next door

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See also: nextdoor and next-door

English

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Adverb

next door (not comparable)

  1. In an adjacent building, room or place.

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Adjective

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

  1. (usually postpositive) That is in an adjacent place; that is located next door.
    Try the place next door.

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next door

  1. (dialectal) Next door to.
    • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song (A Scots Quair), Polygon, published 2006, page 17:
      Next door the kirk was an olden tower, built in the time of the Roman Catholics [...].