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NEXT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does next mean?
• NEXT (adjective)
The adjective NEXT has 4 senses:
1. immediately following in time or order
2. nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
3. (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
4. (of a day of the week) nearest (or nearest but one) after the present moment
Familiarity information: NEXT used as an adjective is uncommon.
• NEXT (adverb)
The adverb NEXT has 1 sense:
1. at the time or occasion immediately following
Familiarity information: NEXT used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Immediately following in time or order
Synonyms:
following; next
Context example:
the next item on the list
Similar:
succeeding (coming after or following)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
Synonyms:
adjacent; next; side by side
Context example:
our rooms were side by side
Similar:
close (at or within a short distance in space or time or having elements near each other)
Sense 3
Meaning:
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
Synonyms:
future; next; succeeding
Context example:
our next president
Similar:
incoming (arriving at a place or position)
Sense 4
Meaning:
(of a day of the week) nearest (or nearest but one) after the present moment
Context example:
on Tuesday next
Similar:
succeeding (coming after or following)
Sense 1
Meaning:
At the time or occasion immediately following
Context example:
next the doctor examined his back
Context examples
There! She promised I should go next time, for this is the last ice we shall have.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
Our little party of travelers awakened the next morning refreshed and full of hope, and Dorothy breakfasted like a princess off peaches and plums from the trees beside the river.
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, by L. Frank Baum)
Be ready to act next month from March 11 onward.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
We satisfied ourselves that with the help of our rope we could find our way down, and then returned, rejoicing, to our camp to make our preparations for the next evening.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The next moment he received a clout alongside the head that knocked him over on his side.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
The group next used 3-D printing to create a device that could capture and remove melittin from a solution.
(3-D gel-nanoparticle device detoxifies blood, NIH)
The next step is making the device more efficient and making a physical computer that could work in the highest of temperatures, he added.
(Harnessing Heat to Power Computers, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Next day, by noon, I was up and dressed, and sat wrapped in a shawl by the nursery hearth.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
SpaceX is a private company that is expected to begin transporting U.S. astronauts into space next year.
(SpaceX Completes Successful Rocket Launch, VOA News)
The product is expected to undergo clinical testing by the end of next year and be made available in the market in 2020.
(New HIV medicine under development for children in Brazil, Agência Brasil/EBC)
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