Definitions
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- adj. That occupies an adjacent place.
- adv. Alternative spelling of next door.
Etymologies
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Examples
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“Alan,” said my aunt, and she looked at me with love, “the Flatleys”—she was referring to the next-door neighbors—“asked us if we were putting wine bottles in their recycling bin.
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Whether I was showing off for my Aunt Pat or out-dancing every kid who challenged me at my next-door neighbor's house, there was a constant beat in my head.
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I'm never puffed up with pride or think I'm better than the next-door neighbor.
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I led the campaign in Englewood to push the tyrant out of our neighborhood when he sought to live in the Libyan-owned compound that is my immediate next-door neighbor and whose tax-exemption I have fought for three years.
Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Why I Want to Be the Values-Voice in Congress
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Most of the nearly 8,000 locals, however, still tend to think of this region as the nature-based Redwood Empire, in contrast to the commercial wine country of next-door Napa County.
Shepherd Bliss: Occupy Strikes Chord In Small Town Of Sebastopol
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The mosquitoes showed up before dusk fell, drawn to our sugar drinks and our sweat, and the next-door neighbor's underground pool.
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About a month ago, Hance's next-door neighbor Gudrun "Gerdie" Johnson had asked Hance to clean up the property, which included a broken-down car on blocks.
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Among them was the famous San Francisco performance artist and sex educator Annie Sprinkle, who, with her wife, the artist Beth Stephens, are German's next-door neighbors.
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NASA's six-wheeled, one-armed wonder, Curiosity, will reach Mars next summer and use its jackhammer drill, rock-zapping laser machine and other devices to search for evidence that Earth's next-door neighbor might once have been home to the teeniest forms of life.
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My next-door neighbor, the ice cream vendor, my cousin during Thanksgiving family visits, my after-school counselor.
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