neighbour

UK /ˈneɪbə/ US /ˈneɪbɚ/
noun 4verb 3

Definitions

noun

1

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.

2

One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

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

3

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.

4

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

1

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.

2

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

That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.

3

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.

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