Meaning of next | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
   not-comparable
2. following
3. Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
   not-comparable, obsolete
4. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
   not-comparable
5. Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
   not-comparable

Equivalents

Examples

“The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.”

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

“I live in the next house to the Grand Hotel.”

“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.”

“A prophet I, Madam; and I speak the truth the next way: […]”

“The road to resolution, lies by doubt: "The next way home's the farthest way about."”

“Please turn to the next page.”

“On Wednesday next, I'm going to Spain.”

“the next chapter; the next week; the Sunday next before Easter”

“The man was driven by his love for money and his desire to become the next Bill Gates.”

“"[…]You patriotic?" / "I guess so, as much as the next guy," I said, wondering how the hell I could shake him.”

“next friend”

“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 ...”

“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, ...”

“If it be a property, it is a new species, unknown to the civil law, the common law, and the statute law; there is no medium, it must be, if it goes to her next kin, because it is absolute property in her. There can be no distribution of personal property ...”

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