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  • adjective. Nearest in space or position; adjacent.
  • adjective. Immediately following, as in time, order, or sequence.
  • adverb. In the time, order, or place nearest or immediately following.
  • adverb. On the first subsequent occasion.
  • noun. The next person or thing.
  • idiom. (next to) Adjacent to.
  • idiom. (next to) Following in order or degree.
  • idiom. (next to) Almost; practically.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Nighest; nearest; in the place, position, rank, or turn which is nearest: as, next before; next after you.
  • In the place or turn immediately succeeding: as, Who comes next?
  • Almost; within a little of being: as, next to nothing.
  • Nearest to; immediately adjacent to.
  • Nighest; nearest in place or position; adjoining: as, the next town; the next room.
  • Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately succeeding: as, advise me in your next letter; next time; next month.
  • Nearest or shortest in point of distance or of time; most direct in respect of the way or means.
  • The last preceding.
  • Synonyms Nearest, Next. See near.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adverb. In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately succeeding.
  • Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.
  • Nearest in time.
  • Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.
  • Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation.
  • one who represents an infant, a married woman, or any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Following in a sequence.
  • adjective. Being closer to the present location than all other items.
  • adjective. Nearest following (of date, time, space or order).
  • adjective. Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
  • determiner. The one immediately following the current or most recent one
  • determiner. Closest to seven days (one week) in advance.
  • adverb. In a time, place or sequence closest or following.
  • adverb. On the first subsequent occasion,
  • preposition. On the side of; next to.
  • noun. The one that follows after this one.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
  • adjective. immediately following in time or order
  • adverb. at the time or occasion immediately following
  • adjective. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
  • Word Usage
    "But now I hear plainly, even though it be very soft -- the whisper about the bridegroom and the next year, and again quite significantly, the _next_ year."
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