How do you use the word "next" in a sentence?

Here are real-life examples of using "next": It may freeze next week. Next thing you know, you'll be in the papers.

Next Meaning

/nɛkst/

Definition, CEFR level A1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.

Definition

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

adjNearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining., Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.

Sentence Examples

It may freeze next week.

Next thing you know, you'll be in the papers.

The next train to Baltimore is at ten.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms:

close future following

Antonyms:

None

CEFR Practice Quiz

After finishing this task, the ____ step in the process is to review the results.

CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)

We should probably start planning our ____ vacation as soon as possible.

Word Origin & History

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”).

Literary Quotations & Historical Citations

"Philander went into the next room, which was just a lean-to hitched on to the end of the shanty, and came back with a salt mackerel that dripped brine like a rainstorm." — 1913, Joseph C[rosby] Lincoln, chapter VIII, in Mr. Pratt’s Patients, New York, N.Y.; London: D[aniel] Appleton and Company, →OCLC:

"A prophet I, Madam; and I speak the truth the next way: […]" — c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

"The road to resolution, lies by doubt: "The next way home's the farthest way about."" — 1777, Francis Quarles, Emblems Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man, page 152, epigram 2:

""[…]You patriotic?" / "I guess so, as much as the next guy," I said, wondering how the hell I could shake him." — 1945, Yank: the army weekly, volume 4, page 96:

"Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ..." — 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]: De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:

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