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  1. adjective Nearest in space or position; adjacent: the next room.
  2. adjective Immediately following, as in time, order, or sequence: next week; the next item on the list.
  3. adverb In the time, order, or place nearest or immediately following: reading this book next; our next oldest child.
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  • A favourable time, and other circumstances, incline me to hope my next will be a boy, and I promise you I will make a soldier of him; but I wish him to bear your name, and that you should be his godfather. —  The Memoirs of Napoleon
  • O, yes, &c. This next was a boat-song, and timed well with the tug of the oar. —  Army Life in a Black Regiment
  • This year he attended the spring circuit, and sessions at Oxford; and the next was appointed one of the commissioners of bankrupts, and was to be found regularly as a legal practitioner in Westminster Hall. —  Lives of the English Poets
  • This year and the next was a trying period of grave anxiety to everyone. —  Random Reminiscences of Men and Events
  • Sinclair in 1780; the next is a grant of land in 1781. —  Memoirs of 30 Years with the Indian Tribes on the American Frontiers
 

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Etymologies (3)

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  1. Middle English nexte, from Old English nīehsta, nēhst, superlative of nēah, near.

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  1. from Middle English next, necst, nest, from Anglo-Saxon nēhst, ny¯hst, nēxt, neáhst = Old Saxon nāhist = OFries. nest = Old High German nāhōst, nāhist, Middle High German nāhest, næhest, næhst, nāst, näst, G. nähest = Swedish näst = Danish næst, next, nearest, nighest, superlative of neáh, nigh: see nigh, of which next is simply the older superlative. Cf. near, the older comparative of nigh.
  2. from Middle English nexte (also nest, later English dial. neest, Scots neist), from Anglo-Saxon nēxta, nēhsta, ny¯hsta (=Old Saxon nahisto = OFries. neste = Old High German nāhisto, Middle High German nāheste, næheste, næhst, German nähest, nächst = Swedish näst = Danish næst), next, nighest, from nēhst, adverb, superlative of neáh, nigh: see next, adv. Cf. nigh, adjective
 

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