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NEXT DOOR

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 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

At or in or to the adjacent residence

Example:

the criminal had been living next door all this time

Synonyms:

in the adjacent apartment; in the adjacent house; next door

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 Context examples: 

I live next door to him.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"He wants her to see his house," she explained. "And your house is right next door."

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

After changing my clothes I went next door and found Mr. Gatz walking up and down excitedly in the hall.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"I thought you might be here," she responded absently as I came up. "I remembered you lived next door to—"

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Next door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Of course, I immediately suggested a luncheon in New York—and I thought he'd go mad: 'I don't want to do anything out of the way!' he kept saying. 'I want to see her right next door.'

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I had talked with him perhaps half a dozen times in the past month and found, to my disappointment, that he had little to say. So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate roadhouse next door.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)