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Definition: Next Door |
Next DoorAdverb1. At or in or to the adjacent residence; "the criminal had been living next door all this time". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Next DoorSynonyms: in the adjacent apartment (adv), in the adjacent house (adv). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms 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. | |
Crosswords: Next Door |
| English words defined with "next door": door, door-to-door ♦ house-to-house ♦ in the adjacent apartment, in the adjacent house ♦ Next door to. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "next door": CHARGING-MACHINE OPERATOR, CRYSTALLIZER OPERATOR ♦ FURNACE OPERATOR, furnace-charging-machine operator ♦ MELODEON ♦ poker-in, pusher runner. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | It's that psycho next door. Jane, what if he worships you? What if he's got a shrine with pictures of you surrounded by dead people's heads and stuff? (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball) You know, if it wasn't for the junior high school next door, no one would even use the cigarette machine. (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) I'm Henry the 8th I am. Henry the 8th I am I am. I got married to the widow next door. She's been married seven times before. (Ghost; writing credit: Bruce Joel Rubin) D'you know that my next door neighbor has three rabbits? (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) Crab's arse, my arse, it's two pound fifty phoning next door! (The Royle Family; writing credit: Caroline Aherne; Craig Cash) | |
Lyrics | Then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith) | |
Clever | I was the next door kid's imaginary friend. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | My Wife Next Door (1972) The People Next Door (1970) Girls Next Door (1968) The Boy Next Door (1962) Those People Next Door (1952) | |
Song Titles | Girl Next Door (performing artist: Musiq Soulchild) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | You'd better run next door and tell them to soak that package in water ...Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Charles Dickens | Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. |
Horace | It is your business when the wall next door catches fire. |
Katharine Hepburn | Sometimes I wonder if men and women really suit each other. Perhaps they should live next door and just visit now and then. |
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Economic History | Austria | Production of Chrysler Voyagers at the Eurostar facility in Graz was joined by the Jeep Grand Cherokees assembly facility at the Steyr Fahrzeug Technik next door. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | Located on Sixth Street in Osu, behind Cantonments Rd. They also sell fresh pasta in their shop next door. (references) |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Laura Schlessinger | When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going. |
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Expressions using "next door": next door house ♦ next door neighbor ♦ next door neighbour ♦ next door to ♦ the next door. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
girl next door | 1,805 |
the kid next door | 545 |
next door | 161 |
model next door | 109 |
boy next door | 98 |
the millionaire next door | 89 |
teacher next door | 74 |
next door neighbor | 64 |
officer next door | 56 |
woman next door | 44 |
guy next door | 30 |
free girl next door | 13 |
hud teacher next door | 12 |
dead next door | 11 |
the millionare next door | 10 |
whore next door | 8 |
the lady next door | 7 |
hud officer next door | 7 |
the house next door | 7 |
man next door | 6 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "next door"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | i afërt (adjacent, close, cognate, connate, connected, contiguous, homogeneous, imminent, impendent, impending, intimate, near, neighboring, neighbouring, nigh, proximate, thick), fqinj (adjoining, conterminous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, vicinal). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مجاور (adjoining, contiguous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring), البيت المجاور, بيت التالي. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | съседен (adjacent, adjoining, conterminal, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, vicinal), в съседната къща. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "壁 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | vedlejší (accessory, accidental, adjoining, ancillary, by, collateral, extraneous, immaterial, incidental, minor, next, off, secondary, subordinate, subsidiary, supporting, ulterior), vedle (beside, beside the point, by, nearby, next to, to), sousední (adjacent, bordering, nearby, neighboring), bydlící v sousedství. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | voisin (near, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next), d' côté. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | nebenan (alongside, next door [to], next door to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σε διπλανό σπίτι. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | szomszédban. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 隣室 (room next door), 隣に住む (to live next door), 隣 (next door to, next to), 先隣 (next door but one, two doors away), 一'置いて隣 (next door but one). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | さきどなり (next door but one, two doors away), さきとなり (next door but one, two doors away), いっけのいてとなり (next door but one), となりにすむ (to live next door), となり (next door to, next to). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | naboo-dorrys (next door neighbour). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | extnay oorday perto (aboard, about, anigh, by, close, hard, hereditary, near, nearby, nigh, on), o segundo em qualidade, dia seguinte (Morse). (various references) vecin (neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, serf), uşã de alãturi, la un pas de (within an inch of), casã vecinã, învecinat (adjacent, adjoining, close, contiguous, limitrophe, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next). (various references) соседний (nearby, near-by, neighbor, neighbour, next, surrounding, vicinal), ближайший (closest, near, nearest, nearest-neighbour, next, proximate). (various references) susedni (adjacent, adjoining, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring, next, vicinal). (various references) de al lado, casi (about, all but, almost, near, nearly, next, next to, nigh, quasi), al lado (alongside, aside, beside, by). (various references) närmast (closest, immediately, nearest, next, next to, next-door). (various references) อยู่ห้อง บ้านหรือตึกถั"ไป. (various references) yandaki kapı, komşu (adjacent, contiguous, flanking, Jones, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, vicinal), bitişik oda, bitişik komşu (next door neighbor, next door neighbour), bitişik (adjacent, adjoined, adjoining, attached, close, conjunct, connate, connected, contiguous, juxtaposed to, near, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring). (various references) сусідній (adjacent, adjoining, near, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, surrounding), в сусідньому будинку, в сусідній квартирі, найближчий (immediate, nearest, neighbor, neighbour, next, proximate). (various references) drws nesaf. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Misspellings | |
"Next Door" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nextdoor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: nextdoor. | |
| Words within the letters "d-e-n-o-o-r-t-x" | |
-2 letters: dextro, enroot, rodent, rooted. | |
-3 letters: detox, donor, doter, drone, noted, noter, odeon, oxter, redon, redox, rodeo, rondo, tenor, tondo, toned, toner, trend, trode, trone. | |
-4 letters: dent, doer, done, door, dore, dote, exon, nerd, next, node, note, odor, onto, ordo, oxen, redo, rend, rent, rode, rood, root, rote, roto, tend, tern, toed, tone, toon, tore, torn, toro, trod. | |
-5 letters: den, dex, doe, don, dor, dot, end, eon, ern, net, nod, noo, nor, not, ode, one, oot, ore, ort, oxo, red, ret, rex, rod, roe, rot, ted, ten, tod, toe, ton, too, tor. | |
| Words containing the letters "d-e-n-o-o-r-t-x" | |
+3 letters: neoorthodox, reoxidation. | |
+4 letters: neoorthodoxy, reoxidations, tetrodotoxin. | |
+5 letters: tetrodotoxins, unorthodoxies. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4E 65 78 74      44 6F 6F 72 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001110 01100101 01111000 01110100 00100000 01000100 01101111 01101111 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)N e x t   D o o r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004E 0065 0078 0074      0044 006F 006F 0072 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)48719086238818184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Expressions 11. Expressions: Internet 12. Translations: Modern | 13. Derivations 14. Anagrams 15. Orthography 16. Bibliography |
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