: in or to the next building, house, apartment, or room
lives next door
broadly
: in or at an adjacent place
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Examples of next-door in a Sentence
Adjective
a next-door neighbor who is always helpful and friendly
Adverb
He bought the house next door.
I'll be staying in the room next door.
Canada is right next door to the U.S.
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Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 June 2026
Shelter Island, New York Accessible only by ferry or aircraft, Shelter Island, the Hamptons’ quiet next-door neighbor, is the perfect seaside retreat.
—Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 12 June 2026
The Amtrak ticket office, which is currently in a building next door, will hopefully move into a one floor portion of the depot.
—Alan Gionet, CBS News, 11 June 2026
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Adjective
Thus, the god-vamp forms a rock band with his noisy next-door neighbors and starts writing songs as a rebuttal to (and reclamation of) Daniel’s book.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 7 June 2026
Shelter Island, New York Accessible only by ferry or aircraft, Shelter Island, the Hamptons’ quiet next-door neighbor, is the perfect seaside retreat.
—Kira Turnbull, Travel + Leisure, 6 June 2026
Adverb
Percy meets the Florek boys by the lake in Barry’s Bay where her parents buy a cottage, which happens to be next door to Sue Florek (Elisha Cuthbert), a single mother raising her two sons after her husband died from an unexpected heart attack.
—Dessi Gomez, Deadline, 12 June 2026
The Amtrak ticket office, which is currently in a building next door, will hopefully move into a one floor portion of the depot.
—Alan Gionet, CBS News, 11 June 2026
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“Next-door.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/next-door. Accessed 15 Jun. 2026.
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