: 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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Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
So the Pazos didn’t think much of it when their elderly next-door neighbor sold her 1951 house, on a spacious corner lot, to an investor who promptly flipped it, for $999,000, to a home developer.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Asher Price, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
The deal works out to $296 a square foot for a 1,600-square-foot house and the vacant 3,400-square-foot retail building next door, which has two units.
—Matthew Geiger, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
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Adjective
Patricia Marie Burt died Tuesday, one day after the attack in her next-door neighbor's yard in a rural area southeast of Beulah, an unincorporated community near the Georgia state line.
—Natalie Neysa Alund, USA TODAY, 1 Mar. 2025
So the Pazos didn’t think much of it when their elderly next-door neighbor sold her 1951 house, on a spacious corner lot, to an investor who promptly flipped it, for $999,000, to a home developer.
—Andres Viglucci, Miami Herald, 27 Feb. 2025
Adverb
The bottom line: The cutting-edge construction firm, which has partnered with NASA for ways to build on the moon, could soon be bringing its characteristic wavy walls to a central Austin property next door.
—Asher Price, Axios, 4 Mar. 2025
The deal works out to $296 a square foot for a 1,600-square-foot house and the vacant 3,400-square-foot retail building next door, which has two units.
—Matthew Geiger, The Denver Post, 4 Mar. 2025
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“Next-door.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/next-door. Accessed 9 Mar. 2025.
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