be next door to something
next door
noun[ U ]
UKinformaluk /ˌnekst ˈdɔːr/ us /ˌnekst ˈdɔːr/
the person or people living in the next room, house, or building: 隔壁邻居
Next door's having a party next week, did you know?隔壁邻居下周要举办聚会，你知道吗？

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Next to and beside
abreast
adjacency
adjacent
adjacently
adjoining
against
at someone's elbowidiom
beside
bordering
contiguity
contiguous
neighbour
next
next door but oneidiom
next door to someone/something
non-contiguous
on
shoulder
shoulder to shoulderidiom
side

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next door | American Dictionary

next door
adjective, adverb[ not gradable ]
us/ˈnekst ˈdɔr/
beside a building, house, apartment, or other place:
next-door neighbors
Danny lived next door to me when we were kids.

Examples of next door

next door
And then you yourself will take them yourself to the barn nextdoor.
If the person at the door did not meet our criteria, the house nextdoor was surveyed.
The man that lives nextdoor is very strange. 15.
After all, this perspective was born of philosophers working nextdoor to their own university's healthcare facility.
The daughters, however, were not welcomed nextdoor at the church until they had done penance for their incontinent living.
It was an undertaker parlor nextdoor to the theater, and we were supposed to stay in some rooms they had upstairs there.
People speak of him as if they know him, as if he lives nextdoor.
In the event, the house nextdoor was empty, identical, and for sale.
If it is clear that the money will go to the people nextdoor, intuitions say he is under the more stringent obligation to give.
Another 9 per cent shared an address, and 17 per cent lived nextdoor to another volunteer.
Nextdoor there had been an inn, run by a female landlady.
Nextdoor might be the poor relatives.
No longer ‘out of sight, out of mind’, it became ‘out of his or her mind and living nextdoor to me and my children’.
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A car on display in one room can be copied in the space of 5 minutes in the room nextdoor.
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If my house nextdoor could be warm, why could not hers?
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