next

  • (noun): The one that follows after this one.
  • (adjective): Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
  • (adjective): Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
  • (adjective): Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.
  • (adjective): Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
  • (adverb): In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
  • (adverb): On the first subsequent occasion.
  • (preposition): On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
  • Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
  • the next chapter; the next man I see; the next week; the Sunday next before Easter
  • The man was driven by his love for money and his desire to become the next Bill Gates.
  • It's the next best thing to ice cream.
  • Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?