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English Online Dictionary. What means next‎? What does next mean?

English

Alternative forms

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

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 nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: nĕkst, IPA^(key): /nɛkst/
• Rhymes: -ɛkst

Adjective

next (not comparable)

1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
   1. (obsolete) Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
2. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
3. (chiefly law) Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)

   next friend

   • 1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250:

     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 ...

Usage notes

• Near was originally the comparative form of nigh; the superlative form was next. Nigh is used today mostly in archaic, poetic, or regional contexts.

Synonyms

• (nearest in order): See also Thesaurus:former or Thesaurus:subsequent

Antonyms

• previous

Translations

Determiner

next

1. Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.

2. (of days of the week or months of the year) 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.

See also

• last
• this
• this coming
• week (as in Saturday week)

Adverb

next (not comparable)

1. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.

   They live in the next closest house.

   It's the next best thing to ice cream.

   1. (conjunctive) So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.

      First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.

2. On the first subsequent occasion.

Antonyms

• previously

Translations

Preposition

next

1. (obsolete or poetic) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; 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 […] .

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

next (uncountable)

1. The one that follows after this one.

   Next, please, don't hold up the queue!

   One moment she was there, the next she wasn't.

   The week after next

   • 2007, Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN):

     There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.

1. (gaming) Next match

   gg team, Wanna play next?

Translations

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /nɛxt/

Noun

next m

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

Synonyms

• qelen