"next level" meaning in English

See next level in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

Forms: more next level [comparative], most next level [superlative]
Head templates: {{en-adj}} next level (comparative more next level, superlative most next level)
  1. Alternative form of next-level Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: next-level
    Sense id: en-next_level-en-adj-G9vJpnMC Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 57 39 4

Noun

Forms: next levels [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} next level (plural next levels)
  1. A significantly more advanced or unusual state or situation.
    Sense id: en-next_level-en-noun-l21qIIVl
  2. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see next, level. Derived forms: take it to the next level
    Sense id: en-next_level-en-noun-MnaxdsDw

Inflected forms

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          "ref": "2004, Xiaofang Zhou, Web Information Systems -- WISE 2004",
          "text": "We will also discuss our goal of continually advancing web search to next level by applying data mining, machine learning, and knowledge discovery techniques into the process of information analysis, organization, retrieval, and visualization.",
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          "ref": "2005, T. D. Jakes, Ten Commandments of Working in a Hostile Environment",
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          "ref": "2014, Traverro Harden-Ali, Next Level Woman Series: Black, Female, & Rising",
          "text": "Some relationships that can get you to your next level are partnerships. Joining forces with other women or with men can help to bring your vision into fruition even earlier.",
          "type": "quotation"
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          "ref": "2015, Erika Kelly, You Really Got Me",
          "text": "What we need is someone to get us to that next level. Because, guys? We've done all we can here.",
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          "ref": "2006, H. Samy Alim, Roc the Mic Right: The Language of Hip Hop Culture, page 153",
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          "ref": "2011, Susan Horton, A Tribute to Bullying:: \"What They Call Ugly\", page 98",
          "text": "I enjoy me some pussy, but making love to a man is some next level shit.",
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          "ref": "2014, Rob Fee, Thought Catalog, I Was Raised By Television",
          "text": "That was some next level Twilight Zone stuff.",
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          "text": "That was some next level shit! This weekend is going to be off the hook.",
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          "text": "Many of us want to go to that next level, to grasp the next rung on the ladder, to crash through the glass ceiling, but we aren't willing to stretch to get there. But truthfully, the only way we can extend ourselves to reach the next level is to move beyond our comfort zone and utilize more of our talents and capabilities.",
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          "ref": "2011, Susan Horton, A Tribute to Bullying:: \"What They Call Ugly\", page 98",
          "text": "I enjoy me some pussy, but making love to a man is some next level shit.",
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          "ref": "2014, Rob Fee, Thought Catalog, I Was Raised By Television",
          "text": "That was some next level Twilight Zone stuff.",
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          "text": "That was some next level shit! This weekend is going to be off the hook.",
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