next Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite immediately following in time or order
    following.
    • the following day
    • next in line
    • the next president
    • the next item on the list
  2. adjective satellite nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
    side by side; adjacent.
    • had adjacent rooms
    • in the next room
    • the person sitting next to me
    • our rooms were side by side
  3. adjective satellite (of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
    future; succeeding.
    • our next president
  4. adverb at the time or occasion immediately following
    • next the doctor examined his back

WordNet


Next a., superl. of Nigh
Etymology
AS. nhst, niéhst, nhst, superl. of neáh nigh. See Nigh.
Definitions
  1. Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening. Chaucer.
    Her princely guest Was next her side; in order sat the rest. Dryden.
    Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way. Bunyan.
  2. Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour.
  3. Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.
    None could tell whose turn should be the next. Gay.
  4. Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant.
    The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. Ruth ii. 20.
    Next is usually followed by to before an object, but to is sometimes omitted. In such cases next in considered by many grammarians as a preposition.
Next adverb
Definitions
  1. In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding; as, this man follows next.

Webster 1913