Definition of next:

• Nearest; closest; immediately following. See Green v. McLaren, 7 Ga. 107; State v. Asbell, 57 Kan. 398, 46 Pac. 770; German Security Bank v. McGarry, 106 Ala. 633, 17 South. 704.
• Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening.
• Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour.
• Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order.
• Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant.
• Of nigh.
• In the time, place, or order nearest or immediately suceeding; as, this man follows next.
• Immediately succeeding; in the nearest time, place, or order; as, you go next: next of kin, nearest relative.
• Nearest or immediately after.
• Immediately succeeding.
• Immediately succeeding. Next door to, very near to.
• Immediately succeeding, or at the time or turn nearest, as, " the matter is next to impossible": next door to, close to; not far removed from anything.
• Of Nigh; nearest in place, time, or degree.
• Nearest in time, place, degree, or rank; as, the next day; the next street; the next quality; next in order.
• ( superl. of NIGH), Nearest in place, time, etc.
• Being only one step removed; nearest.
• Nearest in place; nearest in time; having no object intervening between it and another.

Usage examples for next

1. Her aunt's house was next to my grandma's.  Aurora the Magnificent by Gertrude Hall

2. He did not know quite what he was going to do next.  Crecy by Hilaire Belloc

3. It's next her ladyship's.  The Great Impersonation by E. Phillips Oppenheim

4. I can take the next one.  Entire PG Edition of The Works of William Dean Howells by William Dean Howells