next-door
Also next door . to, at, or in the next house on the street, especially if it is very close by, or the adjacent apartment, office, room, or the like: Go next-door and get your sister. Your sister is next-door. Her brother lives next-door.
being situated or living next-door: next-door neighbors.
Origin of next-door
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How to use next-door in a sentence
The kid from next door drops by and Marvin talks to him about the stunts in his latest film, Death Hunt.
The Story Behind Lee Marvin’s Liberty Valance Smile | Robert Ward | January 3, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTShe stormed off next door, where the business owner tried to chase Wislon off before the bandit squeezed off a round.
Next door, a strip mall popped and hissed as unknown accelerants aided in its fiery destruction.
When gunshots burst out, she ran to retrieve her child from school and returned to her house just as a bomb hit next door.
‘Argo’ in the Congo: The Ghosts of the Stanleyville Hostage Crisis | Nina Strochlic | November 23, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThank God it will soon be evacuated and replaced by two new prisons, SCI Phoenix I and II, just next door.
Here’s a Reform Even the Koch Brothers and George Soros Can Agree On | Tina Brown | November 10, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Raoul, with pessimistic foreboding, was convinced that there were only girls next door.
The Awakening and Selected Short Stories | Kate ChopinIn fact, he had placed himself in so unsatisfactory a position as to render anything but bad news next door to an impossibility.
Elster's Folly | Mrs. Henry WoodKnock at the next door, cried Mr. Losberne, taking Olivers arm in his.
Oliver Twist, Vol. II (of 3) | Charles DickensFor instance, my next-door neighbours are always making the most awful noises—playing and singing morning, noon, and night.
And my poor Ethel finds her singing constantly interrupted by the disgusting row made by our next-door neighbour.
British Dictionary definitions for next door
at, in, or to the adjacent house, flat, building, etc: we live next door to the dentist; the next-door house
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