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If you do one thing, and then something else right afterward, you do it next. If you hear a game show host scream, "Come on down, you’re the next contestant," then you better get to the stage!

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Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.

Adjective S.
immediately following in time or order; "the following day"; "next in line"; "the next president"; "the next item on the list"

Adjective S.
nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space; "had adjacent rooms"; "in the next room"; "the person sitting next to me"; "our rooms were side by side"

Adjective S.
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving; "our next president"

Adverb
at the time or occasion immediately following; "next the doctor examined his back"


superl.
Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.

superl.
Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour.

superl.
Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.

superl.
Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant.

adv.
In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding; as, this man follows next.


Next

Next , a., superl. of Nigh. [AS. nhst, ni'82hst, nhst, superl. of ne'a0h nigh. See Nigh.] 1. Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening. Chaucer.
Her princely guest Was next her side; in order sat the rest.
Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way.
2. Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour. 3. Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.
None could tell whose turn should be the next.
4. Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant.
The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen.
&hand; Next is usually followed by to before an object, but to is sometimes omitted. In such cases next in considered by many grammarians as a preposition. Next friend (Law), one who represents an infant, a married woman, or any person who can not appear sui juris, in a suit at law.

Next

Next, adv. In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding; as, this man follows next.

Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.

In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding; as, this man follows next.

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Usage Examples

Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next.

A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.

A great many people experience the movement from one century to the next, but a minuscule number of people experience the movement from one millennium to the next.

A city is a place where there is no need to wait for next week to get the answer to a question, to taste the food of any country, to find new voices to listen to and familiar ones to listen to again.

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.

And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

Also, I'm always learning better and better how to prioritize and how to leave certain things for the next day.

Actors are steeped in a world of agents and where the next job is coming from and what are their expenses and what is the hotel like. You want to take them out of that world and dump them into another world, so that when you meet them on the screen they don't seem like the guy who was in two others movies that year.

A great many people seem to think writing poetry is worthwhile, even though it pays next to nothing and is not as widely read as it should be.

Acting is fun and I refuse to get involved in the semantics and the politics of strategy and breaking out of something or doing something because you need to do something else. For me it's all about what fuels my soul and if I'm passionate about a screenplay then that's what I'll do next.

A teacher is never too smart to learn from his pupils. But while runners differ, basic principles never change. So it's a matter of fitting your current practices to fit the event and the individual. See, what's good for you might not be worth a darn for the next guy.

A good athlete always mentally replays a competition over and over, even in victory, to see what might be done to improve the performance the next time.

Air travel survived decades of terrorism, including attacks which resulted in the deaths of everyone on the plane. It survived 9/11. It'll survive the next successful attack. The only real worry is that we'll scare ourselves into making air travel so onerous that we won't fly anymore.

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