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1. 1. Nearest in place; having no similar object intervening. Chaucer. Her princely guest Was next her side; in order sat the rest. Dryden. Fear followed me so hard, that I fled the next way. Bunyan.
2. 2. Nearest in time; as, the next day or hour.
3. 3. Adjoining in a series; immediately preceding or following in order. None could tell whose turn should be the next. Gay.
4. 4. Nearest in degree, quality, rank, right, or relation; as, the next heir was an infant. The man is near of kin unto us, one of our next kinsmen. Ruth ii. 20.