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Definition
adj (English)
1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.Examples: "A prophet I, Madam; and I speak the truth the next way: […]"; "The road to resolution, lies by doubt: "The next way home's the farthest way about.""not-comparableobsolete
2. (chiefly law) Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)Examples: "next friend"; "And if a man purchase land in fee simple and die without issue, he which is his next cousin collaterall of the whole blood, how farre so ever he be from him in degree, (de quel pluis long degree qu'il soit), may inherite and have the land ..."; "Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ..."not-comparable
det (English)
1. (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future.Examples: "The party is next Tuesday; that is, not tomorrow, but eight days from now."; "When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week?"
adv (English)
1. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.Examples: "First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint."conjunctivenot-comparable
prep (English)
1. (obsolete or poetic) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.Examples: "D is so dainty a letter, that she admits no other consonant next her but R:[…]"; "All persons, in walking the streets, whose right sides are next the wall, are intitled to take the wall."; "The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians […] ."obsoletepoetic
noun (English)
1. (gaming) Next matchExamples: "gg team, Wanna play next?"uncountable
Definition source: Wiktionary