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Etymology
From, , , from , , etc., inflected forms of , superlative form of (the comparative would become ), corresponding to ; equivalent to. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening;.
 * 2)  Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
 * 3) Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately  (or sometimes ) in order.
 * 4)  Nearest in relationship.
 * next friend
 * 1) * 1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250:
 * 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 ...
 * 1) Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately  (or sometimes ) in order.
 * 2)  Nearest in relationship.
 * next friend
 * 1) * 1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250:
 * 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 ...
 * 1)  Nearest in relationship.
 * next friend
 * 1) * 1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250:
 * 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 ...
 * 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 ...

Usage notes

 * was originally the comparative form of ; the superlative form was . is used today mostly in archaic, poetic, or regional contexts.

Synonyms

 * See also Thesaurus:former or Thesaurus:subsequent

Translations

 * Arabic: تَالٍ,  اَلتَّالِي
 * Egyptian Arabic: الي جي, الي جية
 * Armenian:
 * Assamese: পিছৰ, অহা
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: насту́пны, бу́дучы
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Burmese: ,
 * Catalan: ,
 * Central Sierra Miwok: hojèˀ
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 下一個, 下一次
 * Mandarin: 下一個 (with any other measure word),, 下一次
 * Czech:, ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: venonta
 * Estonian: järgmine
 * Finnish:
 * French: ,
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: næstur
 * Ido:
 * Interlingua: sequente
 * Italian:, ,
 * Japanese:
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Ladino: sigiente, venidero, vinideru
 * Lao: ຕໍ່ໄປ, ຫນ້າ
 * Latin:, sequens, subsequens
 * Macedonian: сле́ден
 * Maltese: li jmiss
 * Maori: panuku
 * Norman: perchôin, préchain
 * Norwegian:
 * Pashto: ورپسې,
 * Persian:, پس از این, ,
 * Plautdietsch: näakjst
 * Polish: ,
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian:
 * Russian: ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ath
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: следећи, сљедећи
 * Roman: sledeći, sljedeći
 * Sinhalese: ඊළඟ
 * Slovak: nasledujúci, budúci,
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Thai:
 * Turkish:, önümüzdeki
 * Ukrainian: насту́пний, майбу́тній
 * Urdu: اگلا
 * Vietnamese:
 * Yiddish: ווייַטער, נעקסט


 * Armenian:
 * Bashkir: яҡын, яҡындағы, бирге
 * Bulgarian:, най-близък
 * Catalan: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto: apuda,
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: lit. nearest/closest, lit. neighboring , cf. "next-door"
 * Interlingua: proxime
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: соседен, околен
 * Norwegian:, nærmest
 * Pashto: ورپسې
 * Plautdietsch: näakjst
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: ,
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Afrikaans:
 * Armenian:
 * Azerbaijani: gələn
 * Bashkir: киләһе, икенсе
 * Basque: datorren
 * Bulgarian:
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan:, , que ve,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Dutch:, (chronology)
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: järgmine
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian: lit. nearest/closest, of weeks, months, years , of minutes, hours, days and other time units
 * Irish: seo chugainn
 * Italian: più vicino,
 * Japanese: 明くる
 * Kalmyk: дарук
 * Khmer:
 * Latin: propior
 * Macedonian: следен
 * Malay: depan
 * Ngazidja Comorian: dja
 * Norwegian: ,
 * Pashto: ورپسې
 * Persian:
 * Plautdietsch: näakjst
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Quechua: qhipan
 * Russian:, ,
 * Scottish Gaelic: ath
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:
 * Tibetan: རྗེས་མ
 * Turkish:
 * Vietnamese:


 * Georgian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Korean:

Determiner

 * Next week would be a good time to meet.
 * I'll know better next time.
 * 1)  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.
 * 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?
 * When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week?

Adverb

 * 1) In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
 * They live in the next closest house.
 * It's the next best thing to ice cream.
 * 1)  So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.
 * First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.
 * 1) On the first subsequent occasion.
 * Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
 * When we next meet, you'll be married.

Translations

 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto:, proksime
 * Finnish:
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: εἶτα
 * Hungarian:, lit. 'second', e.g. in next best , lit. one fewer/more/bigger/smaller/etc eggyel
 * Italian: ,
 * Maori: panuku
 * Norwegian: nærmest
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Russian:, , , , ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:


 * Bulgarian: след това
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish: ensi kerralla, seuraavalla kerralla, seuraavan kerran
 * French: ,
 * Galician: seguidamente, deseguido
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: ἑξῆς
 * Hungarian:, , ,
 * Icelandic: því næst
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin:
 * Macedonian: потоа
 * Norwegian: som neste
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:, , ,
 * Russian:, ,
 * Spanish: ,
 * Swedish:


 * German:
 * Interlingua:

Preposition

 * 1)  On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
 * 2) * 1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:
 * 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.
 * 1) * 1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:
 * 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.

Translations

 * Arabic:
 * Egyptian Arabic: جنب
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: al costat
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * Galician:
 * German:
 * Hungarian: ,
 * Italian: vicino a, accanto a,
 * Kapampangan: sumangid
 * Norwegian:, attmed
 * Portuguese: ao lado
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Turkish:

Noun

 * 1) The one that follows after this one.
 * Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
 * One moment she was there, the next she wasn't.
 * The week after next
 * 1) * 2007, Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Griffin, ISBN 9781429917292):
 * There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.

Translations

 * Dutch: de
 * Esperanto: venonto
 * French: le
 * German: der/die Nächste
 * Hungarian: a
 * Italian: il, la
 * Norwegian:, nestemann
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Spanish:, ,
 * Swedish:

Noun

 * 1) A bride price