neighbour

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UK /ˈneɪbə/ US /ˈneɪbɚ/

noun 4verb 3

Collocations

(noun.)

ADJ

friendly, good

We have lived next to friendly neighbours who often help us with our garden.

close, immediate, near, next-door

My close neighbours helped us move into our new house last weekend.

nearest

My nearest neighbour invited us over for coffee last Sunday afternoon.

northern, southern, etc.

France is Germany's western neighbour and they share a long border together.

PHRASES

friends and neighbours

Definitions

noun

A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

My neighbour has two noisy cats.

They′re our neighbours across the street.

One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.

A fellow human being.

1982, Bible (NKJV), Leviticus 19:18, You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.

Anything located directly adjacent to something else.

The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.

verb

To be adjacent to

Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.

Theſe grow at the South end of the Iland, and on the leiſurely aſcending hills that neighbour the ſhore.

To be similar to, to be almost the same as.

That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.

To associate intimately with; to be close to.

[…] the barbarous Scythyan, […] / Shall bee as well neighbour’d, pittyed and relieued / As thou my ſometime daughter.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a nearby object of the same kind

neighbor

noun — a person who lives (or is located) near another

neighbor

verb — be located near or adjacent to

neighbor

verb — live or be located as a neighbor

neighbor

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

My neighbour has two noisy cats.

Wiktionary

They′re our neighbours across the street.

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1660, Hugh Peters, The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters, reprinted 1807, page 10, Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a neighbour

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Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.

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Theſe grow at the South end of the Iland, and on the leiſurely aſcending hills that neighbour the ſhore.

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[…] who neighbourest the rock-born rill, / Thou Hermes!

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, neighbour is marked as figuratively, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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