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/nɛkst/

adjective · adverb

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  1. 01

    adjective

    Coming immediately after the present one.

  2. 02

    adverb

    Immediately after the current time or event.

Examples

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

  • The next train to Baltimore is at ten.

At a glance

Sits at A1 on the CEFR scale

Senses
5
Parts of speech
2
Citations
5
Synonyms
1

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adjective

Extra meanings

  1. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.

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

  3. Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.

More examples

In context

  • It may freeze next week.

  • I live in the next house to the Grand Hotel.

  • She lives a mile or two away, in the next village.

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Origin

adjective

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”).