preposition
1 in or into a position right beside sb/sth:
We sat next to each other. -< NEXT
2 following in order or importance after sb/sth:
Next to skiing my favourite sport is skating.
3 almost:
Charles knew next to nothing about farming. * The horse came next to last (= the one before the last one) in the race.
4 in comparison with sb/sth:
Next to her I felt like a fraud.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for next to is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does next to appear elsewhere on Lughet?
Yes — next to appears under other sources or language pairs in Lughet's collection. See the list below.
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