: in or to the next building, house, apartment, or room
lives next door
broadly
: in or at an adjacent place
Examples of next-door in a Sentence
Adjective
a next-door neighbor who is always helpful and friendly
Adverb
He bought the house next door.
I'll be staying in the room next door.
Canada is right next door to the U.S.
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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
So the Pazos didn’t think much of it when their elderly next-door neighbor sold her 1951 house, on a spacious corner lot, to an investor who promptly flipped it, for $999,000, to a home developer.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Opposite is the fat and welcoming British Library, composed of 10 million bricks, a number that merely nips at the toes of the 60-million-brick St. Pancras Hotel next door.
—Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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Adjective
Patricia Marie Burt died Tuesday, one day after the attack in her next-door neighbor's yard in a rural area southeast of Beulah, an unincorporated community near the Georgia state line.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
So the Pazos didn’t think much of it when their elderly next-door neighbor sold her 1951 house, on a spacious corner lot, to an investor who promptly flipped it, for $999,000, to a home developer.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Adverb
But at Hotel Riu Plaza next door, multiple human rights groups held a press conference Thursday condemning the Saudi government and the FII conference.
—Tess Riski, Miami Herald, 20 Feb. 2025
Opposite is the fat and welcoming British Library, composed of 10 million bricks, a number that merely nips at the toes of the 60-million-brick St. Pancras Hotel next door.
—Francesca Carington, New York Times, 18 Feb. 2025
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“Next-door.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/next-door. Accessed 4 Mar. 2025.
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