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Next

Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.

Pronunciation: /nɛkst/

What “Next” means

Adj

  1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
  2. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
  3. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
  4. Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)

Det

  1. Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.
  2. 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.

Adv

  1. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
  2. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
  3. On the first subsequent occasion.

Prep

  1. On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.

Where the word comes from

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 nächster (“next”), Yiddish נעקסט (nekst, “next”), Danish næste (“next”), Elfdalian nest (“by, near”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Norwegian Bokmål and Norwegian Nynorsk neste (“next”), Swedish näst, nästa (“next”), Persian نزد (nazd, “near, with”). Compare typologically Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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