: in or to the next building, house, apartment, or room
lives next door
broadly
: in or at an adjacent place
Examples of next-door in a Sentence
Adjective
a next-door neighbor who is always helpful and friendly
Adverb
He bought the house next door.
I'll be staying in the room next door.
Canada is right next door to the U.S.
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Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2025
At the top of the stairs stood a pale, dark-eyed girl about my age, presumably my noisy next-door neighbour.
—Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Bay Books Cafe, next door to the shop, is a good place to stop for a coffee or pastry before carrying on with the crawl.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2025
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Adjective
Meanwhile, their best friends and next-door neighbors, Min (Han) and his commitment-phobic boyfriend Chris (Yang), are having problems of their own.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 16 Apr. 2025
At the top of the stairs stood a pale, dark-eyed girl about my age, presumably my noisy next-door neighbour.
—Hazlitt, 12 Mar. 2025
Adverb
Then, on Monday night, another Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is next door to KSC.
—Mike Wall, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2025
Bay Books Cafe, next door to the shop, is a good place to stop for a coffee or pastry before carrying on with the crawl.
—Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 20 Apr. 2025
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“Next-door.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/next-door. Accessed 1 May. 2025.
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