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• next-door
  next-door

  adverb

  Also next door to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like.
• next door
  next door

  adjective

  at, in, or to the adjacent house, flat, building, etc

next-door

American  

[neks-dawr, -dohr, nekst-, neks-dawr, -dohr, nekst-] / ˈnɛksˈdɔr, -ˈdoʊr, ˈnɛkst-, ˈnɛksˌdɔr, -ˌdoʊr, ˈnɛkst- /

adverb

1. Also next door to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like.

   Go next-door and get your sister. Your sister is next-door. Her brother lives next-door.

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adjective

1. being situated or living next-door.

   next-door neighbors.

next door British  

adjective

1. at, in, or to the adjacent house, flat, building, etc

   we live next door to the dentist

   the next-door house

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Etymology

Origin of next-door

First recorded in 1475–85

Example Sentences

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next-door next door

But all of that has gone hand-in-hand with persistent complaints about a slow bureaucracy and a dysfunctional city administration which famously took almost 15 years to build an international airport with next-door Brandenburg state.

From Barron's ● Sep. 15, 2026

At the Austin condo complex, a next-door neighbor said Paxton’s unit has a renter.

From Salon ● Sep. 5, 2026

Villains in previous Toy Story movies have included a large purple teddy bear called Lotso, troubled next-door neighbour Sid, a ruthless toy collector named Al and creepy vintage doll Gabby Gabby.

From BBC ● Jun. 1, 2026

It won only one out of 234 seats in Tamil Nadu and three out of 140 in next-door Kerala, both of which have significant numbers of Christians and Muslims.

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 6, 2026

I was in charge of the younger kids, having been told to stay in the yard and out of the house until Doña Ana, our next-door neighbor, came to get us.

From "When I Was Puerto Rican" by Esmeralda Santiago

Finally, he settled on the building next door: a former 7-Eleven that sat empty for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2026

Woody Fincham, a real-estate appraiser in Virginia, agrees that a data center going up right next door to a residential property or a subdivision could have an effect on property values.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 4, 2026

Indeed, it seems more than possible that the stereotypical Canadian “niceness” is a consequence of living next door to an armed and dangerous neighbor.

From Salon ● Aug. 31, 2026

Ruth Dickie lives next door at number 6.

From BBC ● Aug. 27, 2026

I walk-trotted back to my own street, where, hiding behind Mrs. Steck’s sheets hanging on her clothesline next door, I made sure Zed was nowhere in sight.

From "Lawn Boy Returns" by Gary Paulsen

Related Words

• adjacent
• adjoining
• immediate
• nearby
• neighboring
• warm