Next Door

  

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Next Door

Definition: Next Door

Next Door

Adverb

1. 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 Door

Synonyms: in the adjacent apartment (adv), in the adjacent house (adv). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Next Door

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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Crosswords: Next Door

English words defined with "next door": door, door-to-doorhouse-to-housein the adjacent apartment, in the adjacent houseNext door to. (references)
Specialty definitions using "next door": CHARGING-MACHINE OPERATOR, CRYSTALLIZER OPERATORFURNACE OPERATOR, furnace-charging-machine operatorMELODEONpoker-in, pusher runner. (references)

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Modern Usage: Next Door

DomainUsage

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)

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

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Commercial Usage: Next Door

DomainTitle

Books

  • Harry and the Lady Next Door (An I Can Read Book) (reference)

  • Lost in America: How You and Your Church Can Impact the World Next Door (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

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

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Photo Album: Next Door

ThumbnailDescription & Credit

You'd better run next door and tell them to soak that package in water ...Credit: Library of Congress.

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

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Familiar Quotations: Next Door

AuthorQuotation

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Next Door

SubjectTopicQuote

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: Next Door

SpeakerPhrase(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.

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

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Expressions: Next Door

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Next Door

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Next Door

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), (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

   

Portuguese

  

perto (aboard, about, anigh, by, close, hard, hereditary, near, nearby, nigh, on), o segundo em qualidade, dia seguinte (Morse). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

соседний (nearby, near-by, neighbor, neighbour, next, surrounding, vicinal), ближайший (closest, near, nearest, nearest-neighbour, next, proximate). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

susedni (adjacent, adjoining, contiguous, neighboring, neighbouring, next, vicinal). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

de al lado, casi (about, all but, almost, near, nearly, next, next to, nigh, quasi), al lado (alongside, aside, beside, by). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

närmast (closest, immediately, nearest, next, next to, next-door). (various references)

   

Thai

  

อยู่ห้อง บ้านหรือตึกถั"ไป. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

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)

   

Ukranian 

  

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)

   

Welsh

  

drws nesaf. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: Next Door

Misspellings

"Next Door" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: nextdoor. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Next Door

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.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Next Door


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

4E 65 78 74      44 6F 6F 72

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01001110 01100101 01111000 01110100 00100000 01000100 01101111 01101111 01110010

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#78 &#101 &#120 &#116 &#32 &#68 &#111 &#111 &#114

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

004E 0065 0078 0074      0044 006F 006F 0072

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

48719086238818184

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INDEX

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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