[
UK
/nˈɛkst/
]
[ US /ˈnɛks, ˈnɛkst/ ]
[ US /ˈnɛks, ˈnɛkst/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
immediately following in time or order
the next president
the following day
next in line
the next item on the list -
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
our next president -
(of a day of the week) nearest (or nearest but one) after the present moment
on Tuesday next
not this Saturday, next Saturday -
nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
the person sitting next to me
in the next room
had adjacent rooms
our rooms were side by side
ADVERB
-
at the time or occasion immediately following
next the doctor examined his back
How To Use next In A Sentence
- The difficulties of the next year or two will, no doubt, reawaken the pro-euro lobby.
- The defendant was released on bail until his trial next year. Times, Sunday Times
- When the King heard this, he bade his son be slain; but on the next day the second Wazir came forward for intercession and kissed ground in prostration. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- The Plover is to be communicated with each year by a man-of-war — the Amphitrite is the next. The International Monthly Magazine - Volume V - No II
- Before you know it, all the Sandy Clarks and Billy Starks doing the media rounds are back in business until the next time they are given their jotters for failing to meet fans' expectations.
- Two more debates are scheduled in the coming weeks, one debate dealing with education and health will be held in Irbid next week and the final week before elections the southern city of Karak will witness a candidates debate on agriculture and development. Daoud Kuttab: Jordanian Candidate Uses Debate to Call for Curtailing King's Powers
- Next follows the cella, and beyond that, the adytum; there are a few sculptures on the walls of the adytum; on those of the pronaos Travels in Nubia
- Since the extra energy being transferred from one molecule to the next changes the way each absorbs and emits light, the flow of energy can be followed through optical spectroscopy, resolved on a femtosecond timescale.
- The experience was a little like being seated next to a cheerful, open-faced fellow on a long airplane flight who begins talking to you - and then never, ever, ever stops, not even when he has his Salisbury steak dinner in his mouth.
- A lot of teachers expect the situation to worsen over the next few years.