NEXT-DOOR Definition & Meaning

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next-door

[ adverb neks-dawr, -dohr, nekst-; adjective neks-dawr, -dohr, nekst- ]

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

adjective

being situated or living next-door:
next-door neighbors.

next door

adjective

at, in, or to the adjacent house, flat, building, etc
the next-door house
we live next door to the dentist

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of next-door¹

First recorded in 1475–85

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Example Sentences

They describe their next-door neighbor as an uncle.

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Outie Mark knew Ms. Cobel as his next-door neighbor, Mrs. Selvig, never recognizing that she was also his boss — ever present, always watching.

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A complaint filed in Los Angeles by De la Huerta and her then-lawyer Aaron Filler in 2019 states: “Miramax selected their next-door neighbor — 13-year-old Paz De La Huerta — to star in Cider House Rules, so it is indisputable that senior executives at Miramax — almost certainly Harvey Weinstein — were well aware of Paz.”

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He sent photos of the corpses of his next-door neighbors and his sister and her children in their homes.

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Then his next-door neighbor, Munther Ali, and his wife, Fatima.

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