next to
Speech parts
1. next to - Adverb
2. next to - Preposition
Meaning
Beside, alongside, by, adjacent to, or near.
Would you mind if I sit next to you?
Cleanliness is next to godliness.
Immediately after, in choice or consideration; aside from.
Compared to, in comparison with.
next to
Almost; nearly, well-nigh.
It is next to impossible to get him to admit it, but he writes very well.
The job paid next to nothing.
Synonyms
Examples
It is only next to God that we can find true and eternal joy. We taste bitter poison when we live apart from sweet Jesus.
Knowledge is that which, next to virtue, truly raises one person above another.
Opera, next to Gothic architecture, is one of the strangest inventions of western man. It could not have been foreseen by any logical process.
A person stands next to a shade not next to words.
A crow sits next to a crow.
A man's first care should be to avoid the reproaches of his own heart, his next to escape the censures of the world.