next

adj

1. following, ensuing, succeeding, successive, sequential, subsequent, later, after; consequent, attendant, resulting, latter.

2. adjacent, neighboring, bordering, contiguous, adjoining; closest, nearest, nearby, proximate.

adv

3. subsequently, at a subsequent time, later, at a later time, afterward, after, following, successively, sequentially; thereafter, after that time, whereafter, from that time, hereon, since.

prep

4.Usu. next to

beside, by or at the side of, Dial. aside of, by, at one's elbow; alongside, side by side, abreast, cheek by jowl, adjacent to, in juxtaposition with, next door to; near to, close to, Brit. Dial. near-hand, close at hand, nearby, close by; but a step from, on the edge of, bordering upon.