Definition of "next" in Anglais

adjective

1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.

   • The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.
   • She lives a mile or two away, in the next village.
   • I live in the next house to the Grand Hotel.

2. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.

   • Please turn to the next page.
   • On Wednesday next, I'm going to Spain.
   • the next chapter; the next week; the Sunday next before Easter
   • The man was driven by his love for money and his desire to become the next Bill Gates.

3. (chiefly law) Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)

   • next friend
   • 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 ...

determiner

1. Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.

   • Next week would be a good time to meet.
   • I'll know better next time.

2. (of days of the week or months of the year) 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?

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.

2. On the first subsequent occasion.

   • Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
   • When we next meet, you'll be married.

preposition

1. (obsolete or poetic) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.

   • 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 […] .

noun

1. The one that follows after this one.