next

Meanings

Adjective

• nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
• Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
• Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.

Adverb

• In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
• On the first subsequent occasion.

Noun

• The one that follows after this one.

Related

Opposite words

• previous
• previously

Origin

• From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English nīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst, superlative form of nēah, corresponding to Proto-Germanic *nēhwist; equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist, Dutch naast, German nächst, Danish næste, Swedish näst, Icelandic næst, Persian نزد.