next doorn.adv.adj.

Brit.

/ˌnɛks(t) ˈdɔː/, U.S.

/ˌnɛks(t) ˈdɔr/

Forms: see next adj. and door n.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: next adj., door n.

Etymology: < next adj. + door n.

A. n.

a. Originally: (with the) the door of the nearest house (now rare). Later (now always without the): the adjoining or neighbouring house, flat, room, etc. Also figurative.The metonymic development of the later sense appears to have begun in the phrase at the next door. Quots. 1529 and 1606 seem to illustrate this sense, but with at understood.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > nearest or adjoining house

next door?c1500

?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) 95 Yf on loke yow in the face that neuer se yow ere Wold thynk ye were at the next dore by.

1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes 22 b/1 Those vyagys bene but..the nexte dore to Idoletry.

1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark i. f. 9 A sinner whiche..is at the next door to saluacion.

1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue iv. i O's but the next doore to P.

1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxix. sig. F7 The next doore of death sads him not, but hee expects it calmely as his turne in Nature.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 151 When they goe but to the next doore they doe it riding.

1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xix. 11) 146 As if they were ambitious of destruction, which now was at next door by.

1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 142 I kept no Company but in the Family where I Lodg'd, and with a Clergyman's Lady at next Door.

1776 T. Vaughan Hotel i. i. 7 I'm but stepping to next door, and shall not be long before I return.

1811 T. Hook Darkness Visible i. iii. 21 Mr. Seemore, from next door has called.

1823 J. Neal Errata I. xviii. 282 The customer was..balancing in his mind, between the cloth in ‘our store’, and that, which he had seen at the next door.

1849 J. R. Planché Seven Champions ii. iv, in Extravaganzas (1879) 359 There is one more [nation]—the spirit lamp at next door. [Note] Ireland.

1854 Harper's Mag. Feb. 347/2 ‘Ask the master for the money,’ ironically answered the woman from next door.

1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 125 There were two big girls in from next door and games were going on.

1991 M. Duffy Illuminations (1992) 3 A whiff of goat comes from next door's wall.

b. By extension: the occupant(s) of an adjoining house, room, etc.; one's neighbour(s). Also colloquial with titles, as Mrs Next-Door, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > neighbour

nexteOE

neighboureOE

neighbouressa1425

promea1425

confines1531

door-neighbour1562

confiner1599

by-dweller1611

by-inhabitanta1657

Mrs Next-Door1855

nigh-dweller1867

1855 C. Dickens in Househ. Words 17 Feb. 51/1 One answered, ‘I will if next door will’; and another, ‘I won't, if over the way does.’

1933 D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup xi. 127 It..occurred to him that our extra pair of guests might belong to one of the ‘next doors’.

1951 W. Morum Gabriel i. i. 20 I showed it to Mrs. Next-door.

1951 W. Morum Gabriel i. vii. 95 Aunt Amy came in carrying a roast chicken... ‘One of next-door's,’ she said.

1988 A. Bennett Talking Heads 83 They're not my leaves. They're next-door's leaves.

2. next door but one: (the occupant(s) of) the house, room, etc., two doors away.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > neighbour > living in the house two doors away

next door but one1935

1770 N.-Y. Gaz. & Weekly Mercury 23 Apr. 3/3 (advt.) He is removed from the house where Mr. Baltus Dash formerly lived, to the next door but one.

1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol ii. 59 Trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one.

1935 Punch 27 Nov. 590/1 Next-door-but-one was rather a strain. Have you ever imagined canvassing through a speaking-tube?

1988 K. M. Peyton Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (BNC) The put-put of tennis balls came from next door but one.

B. adv.

1. Very close or near to a state, condition, etc.; almost amounting to something.In quot. 1542, with by.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > almost or nearly

nigheOE

well-nigheOE

forneanc1000

well-nearc1175

almostc1261

nighwhatc1300

nearhandc1350

nigh handa1375

nigh handsa1375

as good asc1390

into (right) littlea1413

unto litea1420

nigh byc1430

nearbyc1485

near handsa1500

as near as1517

mosta1538

next door1542

wellmost1548

all but1590

anewst1590

uneath1590

next to1611

nearlya1616

thereaboutsa1616

welly1615

thereabout1664

within (an) ames-ace ofa1670

anear1675

pretty much1682

three parts1711

newsta1728

only not1779

partly1781

in all but name1824

just about1836

nentes1854

near1855

nar1859

just1860

not-quite1870

nearabouta1878

effectively1884

nigh on1887

1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 38 He meneth..to make a good begynnyng, not to bee a litle, but to bee nexte doore by a litle, or nexte cousyn to a litle.

1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 115 Such a one is next dore to salvation.

1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 62 Water..makes the body flaccid and loose, and next door to dissolution.

1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xiii. 191 This same Fawn, I perceive, is next door to a fool.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 19 To be next door to starving.

1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 380 The opera girl, Saunier, who is, though very beautiful, next door to an ideot as to her intellectual gifts.

1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 161 Parliament had not then made it a crime, next door to a felony.

1878 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIV. 713 The idea is next door to blasphemous.

1912 J. Stephens Charwoman's Daughter xxxix. 185 A policeman..would arrest a man for next door to nothing.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xvi. 214 To know the address of the firm of..play-brokers..seemed next door to knowing a Broadway manager.

1978 J. McGahern Getting Through 129 I tauld him his ham was crawling, or..it was next door to crawling if I have a nose.

2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. Miracles at Little No Horse p. v To address the Pope was, he had to think, next door to confiding in God.

2. In, at, or to the nearest or an adjoining house, room, etc. Frequently with to.boy next door: see boy n.¹ and int. Phrases 5. (the) girl next door: see girl n. Phrases 2d.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [adverb] > in or at the next house

next door1603

1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. C4 Would not the misery of such a distressed soule, appeare the greater, if the rich Usurer dwelling next doore to him, should..suffer him to perish?

1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 53 A herb destill'd, and drunk, may dwell next doore..To a brave soul.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. C iiij The Cross-daggers in Moor-fields, next door to the Popes Head Tavern.

1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. viii At his Lodgings next Door to the Gloucester-Head.

1778 G. W. Beekman Let. 24 June in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1303 I now Live in a Good House in Union Street Nex Dore to Archea McCall.

1817 J. Austen Sanditon ix, in Minor Wks. (1954) 412 Mrs. Charles Dupuis lives almost next door to a Lady, who has a relation..who actually attends the Seminary.

1863 Lady Hornby Constantinople 107 The Armenian lady next door, to whom the house belongs.

1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ ii. 33 The galley was next door, and the cook looked in many times a day.

1926 ‘J. J. Connington’ Death at Swaythling Court vii. 121 The kitchen is next the workshop and the walls are very badly deadened, so I could hear voices talking next door.

1995 F. R. Shivers Walking in Baltimore 103 Spiro Agnew's political career ended in a courthouse right next door to City Hall.

3. next door but one: in, at, or to the house, room, etc., two doors away. Frequently with to.

ΚΠ

a1745 J. Swift Poems (1937) I. 211 If you will Vouchsafe to send me an Answer, direct it to me next door but one to the Harrow.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xix. 234 This lady lodged at a bird-fancier's: next door but one to the celebrated mutton-pie shop.

1854 E. C. Gaskell North & South xvii I take up John Boucher's cause, as lives next door but one, wi' a sickly wife.

1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xviii. 261 The Locker Room was next door but one to the Sister's Room, on the side nearest to me.

1979 A. McCowen Young Gemini 16 His father..owned ‘McCowen's Music Centre’ next-door-but-one in Monson Road.

C. adj. (attributive).

That is next door; living next door; neighbouring, adjacent. Cf. next-door neighbour n.

ΘΚΠ

society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > as neighbour

nextOE

neighbourly1612

contiguous1710

next door1739

the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > neighbouring

neighbourc1485

vicinea1513

voisin1527

approaching1533

confine1579

neighbouring1595

fellow-borderinga1628

next door1739

vicinal1739

downstreet1828

1739 D. Bellamy Fair Counsellor in Misc. II. 60 There's a next Door Neighbour of ours, one Sir Toby Testy.

1783 H. Cowley Which is the Man? v. i. 47 My next-door friend, Mrs. Saffron, always wheels into the country on my public nights.

a1839 J. Smith in Comic Misc. (1840) I. 355 He saw a haunch of ven'son roast Down in the next-door kitchen.

1874 J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Monthly May 586 The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill Makes next-door gossips of the antipodes.

1961 J. Dawson Ha-Ha (1962) 60 I used to know her because she had the next-door room to mine.

1988 S. Deshpande That Long Silence I. 36 The next-door woman was getting ready for bed when she opened the door to the boy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	next door
释义	next doorn.adv.adj. Brit. /ˌnɛks(t) ˈdɔː/, U.S. /ˌnɛks(t) ˈdɔr/ Forms: see next adj. and door n. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: next adj., door n. Etymology: < next adj. + door n. A. n. 1. a. Originally: (with the) the door of the nearest house (now rare). Later (now always without the): the adjoining or neighbouring house, flat, room, etc. Also figurative.The metonymic development of the later sense appears to have begun in the phrase at the next door. Quots. 1529 and 1606 seem to illustrate this sense, but with at understood. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [noun] > nearest or adjoining house next door?c1500 ?c1500 Conversion of St. Paul (Digby) 95 Yf on loke yow in the face that neuer se yow ere Wold thynk ye were at the next dore by. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes 22 b/1 Those vyagys bene but..the nexte dore to Idoletry. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Mark i. f. 9 A sinner whiche..is at the next door to saluacion. 1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue iv. i O's but the next doore to P. 1629 J. Earle Micro-cosmogr. (ed. 5) xxix. sig. F7 The next doore of death sads him not, but hee expects it calmely as his turne in Nature. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 151 When they goe but to the next doore they doe it riding. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Gen. xix. 11) 146 As if they were ambitious of destruction, which now was at next door by. 1722 D. Defoe Moll Flanders 142 I kept no Company but in the Family where I Lodg'd, and with a Clergyman's Lady at next Door. 1776 T. Vaughan Hotel i. i. 7 I'm but stepping to next door, and shall not be long before I return. 1811 T. Hook Darkness Visible i. iii. 21 Mr. Seemore, from next door has called. 1823 J. Neal Errata I. xviii. 282 The customer was..balancing in his mind, between the cloth in ‘our store’, and that, which he had seen at the next door. 1849 J. R. Planché Seven Champions ii. iv, in Extravaganzas (1879) 359 There is one more [nation]—the spirit lamp at next door. [Note] Ireland. 1854 Harper's Mag. Feb. 347/2 ‘Ask the master for the money,’ ironically answered the woman from next door. 1914 J. Joyce Dubliners 125 There were two big girls in from next door and games were going on. 1991 M. Duffy Illuminations (1992) 3 A whiff of goat comes from next door's wall. b. By extension: the occupant(s) of an adjoining house, room, etc.; one's neighbour(s). Also colloquial with titles, as Mrs Next-Door, etc. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > neighbour nexteOE neighboureOE neighbouressa1425 promea1425 confines1531 door-neighbour1562 confiner1599 by-dweller1611 by-inhabitanta1657 Mrs Next-Door1855 nigh-dweller1867 1855 C. Dickens in Househ. Words 17 Feb. 51/1 One answered, ‘I will if next door will’; and another, ‘I won't, if over the way does.’ 1933 D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup xi. 127 It..occurred to him that our extra pair of guests might belong to one of the ‘next doors’. 1951 W. Morum Gabriel i. i. 20 I showed it to Mrs. Next-door. 1951 W. Morum Gabriel i. vii. 95 Aunt Amy came in carrying a roast chicken... ‘One of next-door's,’ she said. 1988 A. Bennett Talking Heads 83 They're not my leaves. They're next-door's leaves. 2. next door but one: (the occupant(s) of) the house, room, etc., two doors away. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > neighbour > living in the house two doors away next door but one1935 1770 N.-Y. Gaz. & Weekly Mercury 23 Apr. 3/3 (advt.) He is removed from the house where Mr. Baltus Dash formerly lived, to the next door but one. 1843 C. Dickens Christmas Carol ii. 59 Trying to hide himself behind the girl from next door but one. 1935 Punch 27 Nov. 590/1 Next-door-but-one was rather a strain. Have you ever imagined canvassing through a speaking-tube? 1988 K. M. Peyton Who, Sir? Me, Sir? (BNC) The put-put of tennis balls came from next door but one. B. adv. 1. Very close or near to a state, condition, etc.; almost amounting to something.In quot. 1542, with by. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > [adverb] > almost or nearly nigheOE well-nigheOE forneanc1000 well-nearc1175 almostc1261 nighwhatc1300 nearhandc1350 nigh handa1375 nigh handsa1375 as good asc1390 into (right) littlea1413 unto litea1420 nigh byc1430 nearbyc1485 near handsa1500 as near as1517 mosta1538 next door1542 wellmost1548 all but1590 anewst1590 uneath1590 next to1611 nearlya1616 thereaboutsa1616 welly1615 thereabout1664 within (an) ames-ace ofa1670 anear1675 pretty much1682 three parts1711 newsta1728 only not1779 partly1781 in all but name1824 just about1836 nentes1854 near1855 nar1859 just1860 not-quite1870 nearabouta1878 effectively1884 nigh on1887 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f. 38 He meneth..to make a good begynnyng, not to bee a litle, but to bee nexte doore by a litle, or nexte cousyn to a litle. 1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 115 Such a one is next dore to salvation. 1656 tr. T. White Peripateticall Inst. 62 Water..makes the body flaccid and loose, and next door to dissolution. 1680 R. L'Estrange tr. Erasmus 20 Select Colloquies xiii. 191 This same Fawn, I perceive, is next door to a fool. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 19 To be next door to starving. 1793 G. Morris in J. Sparks Life G. Morris (1832) II. 380 The opera girl, Saunier, who is, though very beautiful, next door to an ideot as to her intellectual gifts. 1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 161 Parliament had not then made it a crime, next door to a felony. 1878 C. H. Spurgeon Serm. XXIV. 713 The idea is next door to blasphemous. 1912 J. Stephens Charwoman's Daughter xxxix. 185 A policeman..would arrest a man for next door to nothing. 1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xvi. 214 To know the address of the firm of..play-brokers..seemed next door to knowing a Broadway manager. 1978 J. McGahern Getting Through 129 I tauld him his ham was crawling, or..it was next door to crawling if I have a nose. 2001 L. Erdrich Last Rep. Miracles at Little No Horse p. v To address the Pope was, he had to think, next door to confiding in God. 2. In, at, or to the nearest or an adjoining house, room, etc. Frequently with to.boy next door: see boy n.¹ and int. Phrases 5. (the) girl next door: see girl n. Phrases 2d. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > [adverb] > in or at the next house next door1603 1603 T. Dekker 1603: Wonderfull Yeare sig. C4 Would not the misery of such a distressed soule, appeare the greater, if the rich Usurer dwelling next doore to him, should..suffer him to perish? 1633 G. Herbert Temple: Sacred Poems 53 A herb destill'd, and drunk, may dwell next doore..To a brave soul. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. C iiij The Cross-daggers in Moor-fields, next door to the Popes Head Tavern. 1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. p. viii At his Lodgings next Door to the Gloucester-Head. 1778 G. W. Beekman Let. 24 June in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1303 I now Live in a Good House in Union Street Nex Dore to Archea McCall. 1817 J. Austen Sanditon ix, in Minor Wks. (1954) 412 Mrs. Charles Dupuis lives almost next door to a Lady, who has a relation..who actually attends the Seminary. 1863 Lady Hornby Constantinople 107 The Armenian lady next door, to whom the house belongs. 1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ ii. 33 The galley was next door, and the cook looked in many times a day. 1926 ‘J. J. Connington’ Death at Swaythling Court vii. 121 The kitchen is next the workshop and the walls are very badly deadened, so I could hear voices talking next door. 1995 F. R. Shivers Walking in Baltimore 103 Spiro Agnew's political career ended in a courthouse right next door to City Hall. 3. next door but one: in, at, or to the house, room, etc., two doors away. Frequently with to. ΚΠ a1745 J. Swift Poems (1937) I. 211 If you will Vouchsafe to send me an Answer, direct it to me next door but one to the Harrow. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) xix. 234 This lady lodged at a bird-fancier's: next door but one to the celebrated mutton-pie shop. 1854 E. C. Gaskell North & South xvii I take up John Boucher's cause, as lives next door but one, wi' a sickly wife. 1954 I. Murdoch Under Net xviii. 261 The Locker Room was next door but one to the Sister's Room, on the side nearest to me. 1979 A. McCowen Young Gemini 16 His father..owned ‘McCowen's Music Centre’ next-door-but-one in Monson Road. C. adj. (attributive). That is next door; living next door; neighbouring, adjacent. Cf. next-door neighbour n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > [adjective] > as neighbour nextOE neighbourly1612 contiguous1710 next door1739 the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > neighbouring neighbourc1485 vicinea1513 voisin1527 approaching1533 confine1579 neighbouring1595 fellow-borderinga1628 next door1739 vicinal1739 downstreet1828 1739 D. Bellamy Fair Counsellor in Misc. II. 60 There's a next Door Neighbour of ours, one Sir Toby Testy. 1783 H. Cowley Which is the Man? v. i. 47 My next-door friend, Mrs. Saffron, always wheels into the country on my public nights. a1839 J. Smith in Comic Misc. (1840) I. 355 He saw a haunch of ven'son roast Down in the next-door kitchen. 1874 J. R. Lowell in Atlantic Monthly May 586 The electric nerve, whose instantaneous thrill Makes next-door gossips of the antipodes. 1961 J. Dawson Ha-Ha (1962) 60 I used to know her because she had the next-door room to mine. 1988 S. Deshpande That Long Silence I. 36 The next-door woman was getting ready for bed when she opened the door to the boy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). > as lemmas next door (to) P3. next door (to): in the next house (to); hence figurative very near (to), bordering (on). ΘΚΠ the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > very near nigh adjoinant1429 prestc1450 near-bordering1604 close1625 near adjoining1625 next door (to)1633 proxime1646 contiguous1779 proximate1836 juxta1860 1633 G. Herbert Praise in Temple iv May dwell next doore, On the same floore. 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Exod. x. 28) 34 Destruction is at next door by. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 19 To be next door to starving. 1875 E. White Life in Christ (1878) i. i. 20 It is next door to cannibalism. extracted from doorn. < n.adv.adj.?c1500 as lemmas
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next doorn.adv.adj.

> as lemmas