NEXT DOOR TO

  

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NEXT DOOR TO

Definition: NEXT DOOR TO

NEXT DOOR TO

1. Near to; bordering on. A riot unpunished is but next door to a tumult. --L'Estrange.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Specialty Definition: NEXT DOOR TO

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Literature

Next Door to ... Very nearly; as "next door to a fool." Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: NEXT DOOR TO

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Nearness

Adverb: near, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at the point of; next door to; within reach, within call,

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Modern Usage: NEXT DOOR TO

DomainUsage

Screenplays

In New York, we lived next door to the man who won the Nobel Prize in physics. (Something Wilder; writing credit: Ralph Farquhar; Gary Hardwick)

Movie/TV Titles

Next Door to Nancy (1917)

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Commercial Usage: NEXT DOOR TO

DomainTitle

Books

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Modern Translation: NEXT DOOR TO

Language Translations for "NEXT DOOR TO"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

German

  

nebenan (alongside, next door, next door [to]). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

szinte (as good as, quasi), közel (around, by, by near, close to, near, near by, nearly, nigh, toward, towards, up). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

(next to). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

となり (next to). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

extnay oorday otay

   

Portuguese

  

contíguo (adjacent, adjoining, contiguous, near, neighboring, neighbouring). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

al lado de (along, alongside, at the side of, beside, by, from, next, next to). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

neredeyse (all but, almost, ere long, in any moment, just about, little less than, nearly, next to, practically, pretty much, soon, well nigh, within an ace of doing), hemen hemen (about, all but, almost, at close quarters, barely, much, near, nearly, next to, nigh, practically, pretty much, proximate, scarcely, well nigh), az daha (all but, almost, nearly). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

трохи не (all but), майже (about, all but, almost, anear, approximately, as good as, but, half, hard upon, just about, much, near, nearby, nearly, next to, nigh, nighly, practically, quasi, quite, well nigh, within). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: NEXT DOOR TO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o-o-r-t-t-x"

-2 letters: nextdoor.

-4 letters: dextro, dotter, enroot, extort, rodent, rooted, rotted, rotten, tooted, tooter, torten.

-5 letters: detox, donor, doter, drone, noted, noter, odeon, otter, oxter, redon, redox, rodeo, rondo, rotte, tenor, tondo, toned, toner, torot, torte, toted, toter, trend, trode, trone.

 Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-o-o-r-t-t-x"
 

+2 letters: tetrodotoxin.

 

+3 letters: tetrodotoxins.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Usage: Modern
3. Usage: Commercial
4. Translations: Modern
5. Anagrams
6. Bibliography


  

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