different between next vs another

English

Alternative forms

• neest (dialectal)
• neist (Scotland)
• nex (archaic)
• nex' (dialectal)

Etymology

From Middle English nexte, nexste, nixte, from Old English n?ehsta, n?ehste, etc., inflected forms of n?ehst (“nearest, next”), superlative form of n?ah (“nigh, near”), corresponding to Proto-Germanic *n?hwist (“nearest, closest”); equivalent to nigh +? -est. Cognate with Saterland Frisian naist (“next”), Dutch naast (“next”), German nächst (“next”), Danish næste (“next”), Swedish näst (“next”), Icelandic næst (“next”), Persian ???? (nazd, “near, with”).

Pronunciation

• enPR: n?kst, IPA^(key): /n?kst/
• Rhymes: -?kst

Adjective

next (not comparable)

1. Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.

   The man in the next bunk kept me awake all night with his snoring.

   She lives a mile or two away, in the next village.

   1. (obsolete) Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
      • 1623, William Shakespeare, All's Well That Ends Well:

        A prophet I, Madam; and I speak the truth the next way: [...]

      • 1777, Francis Quarles, Emblems Divine and Moral: Together with Hieroglyphics of the Life of Man, page 152, epigram 2:

        The road to resolution, lies by doubt:

        "The next way home's the farthest way about."

2. Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.

   Please turn to the next page.

   On Wednesday next, I'm going to Spain.

   • 1676, Pietro Soave Polano, The History of the Council of Trent ..., page 689:

     The next day, which was the next before the Session, a General Congregation was held, [...]
3. (figuratively) Following in a hypothetical sequence of some kind.

   The man was driven by his love for money and his desire to become the next Bill Gates.

4. (chiefly law) Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)

   next friend

   • 1628, Coke, On Littleton (10. a. 10. b. §2), quoted in 1890, John Bethell Uhle, Current Comment and Legal Miscellany, page 250:

     And if a man purchase land in fee simple and die without issue, he which is his next cousin collaterall of the whole blood, how farre so ever he be from him in degree, (de quel pluis long degree qu'il soit), may inherite and have the land ...

   • 1793, William Peere Williams, Samuel Compton Cox, Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases Adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735], De Term. S. Trin. 1731, page 602:

     Thomas Humphrey Doleman died the 30th of August 1712, an infant, intestate and without issue; Lewis the next nephew died the 17th of April 1716, an infant about sixteen years old, having left his mother Mary Webb, ...

   • 1874, Thomas Sergeant, William Rawle, Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania, page 23:

     If it be a property, it is a new species, unknown to the civil law, the common law, and the statute law; there is no medium, it must be, if it goes to her next kin, because it is absolute property in her. There can be no distribution of personal property ...

Synonyms

• (nearest in order): See also Thesaurus:former or Thesaurus:subsequent

Antonyms

• previous

Derived terms

• next-day

Translations

Determiner

next

1. Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.

   Next week would be a good time to meet.

   I'll know better next time.

2. (of days of the week or months of the year) Closest in the future, or closest but one if the closest is very soon; of days, sometimes thought to specifically refer to the instance closest to seven days (one week) in the future.

   The party is next Tuesday; that is, not tomorrow, but eight days from now.

   When you say next Thursday, do you mean Thursday this week or Thursday next week?

See also

• last
• this
• this coming
• week (as in Saturday week)

Adverb

next (not comparable)

1. In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.

   They live in the next closest house.

   It's the next best thing to ice cream.

   1. (conjunctive) So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.

      First we removed all the handles; next, we stripped off the old paint.

2. On the first subsequent occasion.

   Financial panic, earthquakes, oil spills, riots. What comes next?

   When we next meet, you'll be married.

Antonyms

• previously

Translations

Preposition

next

1. (obsolete or poetic) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
   • 1900, The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices, translated by Walter Leaf (London, Macmillan), notes on line 558 of book 2:

     The fact that the line cannot be original is patent from the fact that Aias in the rest of the Iliad is not encamped next the Athenians […] .

Translations

Noun

next (uncountable)

1. The one that follows after this one.

   Next, please, don't hold up the queue!

   One moment she was there, the next she wasn't.

   The week after next

   • 2007, Steve Cohen, Next Stop Hollywood (St. Martin's Griffin, ?ISBN):

     There is no time for lunch, hauling myself from one place to the next.

Translations

Northern Kurdish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /n?xt/

Noun

next m

1. A bride price (among Kurds, customarily given to the family of the bride by the family of the groom)

Synonyms

• qelen

English

Alternative forms

• anoda (Jamaican English)
• anotha, anotha' (AAVE- eye dialect)
• nother (obsolete)

Etymology

From Middle English another, equivalent to an +? other.

Pronunciation

• (UK, unstressed) IPA^(key): /??n?ð.?(?)/
• (UK, stressed) IPA^(key): /æ?n?ð.?(?)/
• (US, unstressed) IPA^(key): /??n?ð.?/
• (US, stressed) IPA^(key): /æ?n?ð.?/
• Rhymes: -?ð?(r)
• Hyphenation: an?oth?er

Determiner

another

1. One more/further, in addition to a former number; a second or additional one, similar in likeness or in effect.

   • Thus the red damask curtains which now shut out the fog-laden, drizzling atmosphere of the Marylebone Road, had cost a mere song, and yet they might have been warranted to last another thirty years. A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; […].
2. Not the same; different.
3. Any or some; any different person, indefinitely; anyone else; someone else.

Usage notes

• As a fused head construction another may have a possessive another's (plural: others, or possessive plural other). It is much used in opposition to one; as, one went one way, another went another. It is also used with one in a reciprocal sense; as, "love one another," that is, let each love the other or others.
  • John Milton

• Another is usually used with a singular noun, but constructions such as "another five days", "another twenty miles", "another few people", "another fifty dollars" are valid too.
• Sometimes, the word whole is inserted into another by the common process of tmesis, giving: "a whole nother." This is a colloquialism that some recommend avoiding in formal writing. The prescribed alternatives are "a whole other" or "another whole".
• There may be ambiguity: "another" may or may not imply "replacement", e.g. "I need another chair." may mean "My chair needs to be replaced." or "I need an additional chair [and I need to keep my existing chair]."

Derived terms

Related terms

• other

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: anedda

Translations

Pronoun

another

1. An additional one of the same kind.

2. One that is different from the current one.

3. One of a group of things of the same kind.

References

• another in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• on Earth, on earth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• anoþer, a noþer

Etymology

From an other, appearing as a single word starting from the 13th or 14th century.

Pronoun

another

1. another

Descendants

• English: another
  • Jamaican Creole: anedda
• Yola: anoor