next door (not comparable)

1. In an adjacent building, room or place.
   • 1895 October 1, Stephen Crane, chapter 10, in The Red Badge of Courage, 1st US edition, New York: D. Appleton and Company, [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Red_Badge_of_Courage_(1895)/Chapter_10#102 page 102]:

     "Yeh know Tom Jamison, he lives next door t' me up home.

• German: nebenan
• Italian: accanto

next door

1. (usually postpositive) That is in an adjacent place; that is located next door.

   Try the place next door.

• boy next door
• girl next door

1. (dialectal) Next door to.
   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 17:

     Next door the kirk was an olden tower, built in the time of the Roman Catholics [...].