Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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a. That occupies an adjacent place. adv. (alternative spelling of next door English) alt. That occupies an adjacent place.
Usage examples of "next-door".
The shopping center and highway traffic almost dulled the appassionata at the next-door drive-in.
Edgar shouted a few times, but when the prisoner in the next-door cell finally told him to keep his fucking yapper shut, he went back to his bunk and sat there with a gray, worried face, and kept silent.
Just like his cheery next-door neighbor Steve Beckwith inquiring yet again if he could borrow the power mower.
His next-door neighbor stared out of the window as the Aegean Sea passed beneath them and the airliner left the sunny spring of the eastern Mediterranean for the snow-capped peaks of the Dolomites and the Bavarian Alps.
With remarkable discipline, I dutifully carried a newly tossed salad, warmed baguettes, and the rest of the quiche to my next-door neighbor, Trudy.
To do anything else would have carried with it great dangers for a country whose military had been downsized and whose next-door neighbor was the nation with the world's largest standing army, and an historical enemy at that.
If your next-door neighbor told you he was kiting checks drafted on your personal bank, you think maybe you might call the police about it?
The idea, as far as Theisman had been able to discover, had been that by doing so Giscards commerce raiders would win enough gratitude from the Andermani Empire for the Imperial Navy to overlook the next-door operations of the People's Navy and the spread of the war with Manticore to its doorstep.
Within a day a portrait of the deceased as he might have looked in life had been produced, and by Wednesday a woman living on a council estate south of the river had identified him as her next-door neighbor, Mr.
Leaning from the next-door window on the left was a jowly man in a derby hat.
Another burst took out the hedgerow and the next-door window I pinned myself back first to the wall and drew myself upright as the snout of a tommy gun was rested against the ledge a few inches away.
Nick gave one swift nod and dismissed the case of the next-door party animals.
The next-door neighbor's twin daughters were perched on their front stoop-flashy sixteen-year-olds in jeans as tight as sausage casings.
I haven't seen a young man in Valley Road yet, except the next-door hired boy—Sam Toliver, a very tall, lank, tow-haired youth.