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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

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Example Sentences

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Our next-door neighbors have been in theirs for 19 years, and for most of that time we thought of ourselves as friends rather than just neighbors.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 25, 2026

I love to hike in nature preserves, but don’t want them as my next-door neighbors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

I wondered if Galicia might have a liability case against the city, but two attorneys told me going after the next-door property owner could be more fruitful.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 12, 2026

The passenger ferry had been sailing from Bali to the next-door island of Lombok when it caught fire in the early morning hours.

From Barron's ● Aug. 12, 2026

Midwives, nurses, dentists, barbers, apothecaries, wandering healers, quack physicians, and next-door neighbors offered opinions on the disease, too.

From "An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793" by Jim Murphy

Merilyn Prentice, 78, is another refugee from the state next door.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 1, 2026

Rachel and Ian had initially been delighted when a new family moved in next door.

From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2026

"We see, for example, customers who, after winning vegetables, go to the supermarket next door to buy ingredients to complete their dinner."

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

In the hotel next door, Joseph Goebbels was resting after a long train journey.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 16, 2026

But what struck me was how light and bright the models seemed compared to the heavy portraits right next door.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

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