HOW TO PRONOUNCE
next
/nɛkst/
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American Pronunciation Guide · 0:47
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Keep k, s, and t together.
Join the final consonants without another vowel. The t can be reduced in speech.
1 syllable
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“Take the next street on the left.”
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CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗What does next mean?
adjective
- Nearest in place or position, having nothing similar intervening; adjoining.
- Nearest in order, succession, or rank; immediately following (or sometimes preceding) in order.
- Nearest in relationship. (See also next of kin.)
More meanings (10)
determiner
- Denotes the one immediately following the current or most recent one.
- 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.
adverb
- In a time, place, rank or sequence closest or following.
- So as to follow in time or sequence something previously mentioned.
- On the first subsequent occasion.
noun
- The one that follows after this one.
- Next match
- Initialism of near-end crosstalk.
adjective
- (obsolete) Most direct, or shortest or nearest in distance or time.
preposition
- (obsolete) On the side of; nearest or adjacent to; next to.
Definitions regrouped for readability · CC BY-SA 4.0
IPA pronunciation
/nɛkst/
Pronunciation used in the listening tip.
CMU Pronouncing Dictionary ↗Pronunciation varies by speaker and region. About these dictionary pronunciations.
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And perhaps she was a bit nervous, I don’t know, but she got Moadine to come and stay next door to her.
I give this catalogue so precisely because, as it happened, we were destined to subsist upon this store for the next fortnight.
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For the next four days it seemed to Dr. Archie that his patient might slip through his hands, do what he might.
But the next morning a note most fearfully and wonderfully twisted and folded, and a small parcel were passed across to Anne.
Whenever I got uncommon tired I played hookey, and the hiding I got next day done me good and cheered me up.