NEXT DOOR


Meaning of NEXT DOOR in English

Note: The adjective is also spelled 'next-door'.

1.

If a room or building is ~, it is the next one to the right or left.

I went ~ to the bathroom...

She was ~ at the time.

...the old lady who lived ~...

The flat ~ was empty.

ADV: ADV after v, be ADV, n ADV

Next door is also an adjective.

She wandered back into the ~ room...

The wires trailed through other parts of the HQ into a ~ building.

ADJ: ADJ n

If a room or building is ~ to another one, it is the next one to the left or right.

The kitchen is right ~ to the dining room.

PREP-PHRASE

2.

The people ~ are the people who live in the house or flat to the right or left of yours.

The neighbors thought the family ~ had moved.

ADV: n ADV

Next door is also an adjective.

Our ~ neighbour knocked on the door to say that our car had been stolen.

ADJ: ADJ n

3.

If you refer to someone as the boy ~ or the girl ~, you mean that they are pleasant and respectable but rather dull.

She was the girl-next-door type.

PHRASE

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