Note: these 'words' (valid or invalid) are all the permutations of the word next. These words are obtained by scrambling the letters in next.
Definitions and meaning of next
next
Alternative forms
neest(dialectal)
neist(Scotland)
nex(archaic)
nex'(dialectal)
Etymology
From Middle Englishnexte, nexste, nixte, from Old Englishnīehsta, nīehste, etc., inflected forms of nīehst(“nearest, next”), superlative form of nēah(“nigh”) (the comparative would become near), corresponding to Proto-Germanic*nēhwist(“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh + -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisiannaist(“next”), Dutchnaast(“next to”), Germannächst(“next”), Danishnæste(“next”), Swedishnäst(“next”), Icelandicnæst(“next”), Persianنزد(nazd, “near, with”).
Pronunciation
enPR: nĕkst, IPA(key): /nɛkst/
Rhymes: -ɛkst
Adjective
next (not comparable)
Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
(obsolete) Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
(chiefly law) Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
next friend
1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250:
And if a man purchase land in fee simple and die without issue, he which is his next cousin collaterall of the whole blood, how farre so ever he be from him in degree, (de quel pluis long degree qu'il soit), may inherite and have the land ...
Usage notes
Near was originally the comparative form of nigh; the superlative form was next. Nigh is used today mostly in archaic, poetic, or regional contexts.
Synonyms
(nearest in order): See also Thesaurus:former or Thesaurus:subsequent
Antonyms
previous
Translations
Determiner
next
Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.
Next week would be a good time to meet.
I'll know better next time.
(of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future.
The party is next Tuesday; that is, not tomorrow, but eight days from now.
When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week?
See also
last
this
this coming
week (as in Saturday week)
Adverb
next (not comparable)
In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
They live in the next closest house.
It's the next best thing to ice cream.
(conjunctive) So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.
First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.
On the first subsequent occasion.
Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?
When we next meet, you'll be married.
Antonyms
previously
Translations
Preposition
next
(obsolete or poetic) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:
The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians […].
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
next (uncountable)
The one that follows after this one.
Next, please, don't hold up the queue!
One moment she was there, the next she wasn't.
The week after next
2007, Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Griffin, →ISBN):
There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.
Translations
Northern Kurdish
Pronunciation
IPA(key): /nɛxt/
Noun
nextm
A bride price (among Kurds, customarily given to the family of the bride by the family of the groom)