: in or to the next building, house, apartment, or room
lives next door
broadly
: in or at an adjacent place
see also next door to
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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Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
Lutnick was once Epstein’s next-door neighbor, with the Upper East Side townhouses sharing a wall.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
That project, expected to break ground this month, is going up next door at Fourth and Plum streets.
—Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
The commercial humorously cuts to everyday viewers — who might as well be analogs for us on the couch — enraptured by Spears' girl-next-door effervescence.
—Debby Wolfinsohn, Entertainment Weekly, 8 Feb. 2026
Lutnick was once Epstein’s next-door neighbor, with the Upper East Side townhouses sharing a wall.
—Sarah D. Wire, USA Today, 3 Feb. 2026
Adverb
Many had dual citizenship, a remnant of the time, not so long ago, when Venezuela was the prosperous and stable oil-rich country next door, while Colombia was in the grips of an intractable and deteriorating crisis.
—Daniel Alarcón, New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2026
That project, expected to break ground this month, is going up next door at Fourth and Plum streets.
—Sydney Franklin, Cincinnati Enquirer, 6 Feb. 2026
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“Next-door.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/next-door. Accessed 11 Feb. 2026.
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