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say it: nekst
next is an adjective and adverb meaning "immediately following in time or order". It is pronounced /ˈnɛkst/ — nekst. It carries 5 recorded senses.
immediately following in time or order
“the following day”
“next in line”
“the next president”
“the next item on the list”
nearest in space or position; immediately adjoining without intervening space
“had adjacent rooms”
“in the next room”
“the person sitting next to me”
“our rooms were side by side”
(of elected officers) elected but not yet serving
“our next president”
(of a day of the week) nearest (or nearest but one) after the present moment
“not this Saturday, next Saturday”
“on Tuesday next”
at the time or occasion immediately following
“next the doctor examined his back”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for next come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.