Neighbour

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Neighbor \Neigh"bor\ (n[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [OE. neighebour, AS.
     ne['a]hgeb[=u]r; ne['a]h nigh + geb[=u]r a dweller, farmer;
     akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. n[=a]hgib[=u]r. See
     {Nigh}, and {Boor}.] [Spelt also {neighbour}.]
     1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not
        far off. --Chaucer.


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              Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors.
                                                    --Shak.
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     2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
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              Buckingham
              No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. --Shak.
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     3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness;
        hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
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              Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was
              neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
                                                    --Luke x. 36.
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              The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes
              every man my neighbor.                --South.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\,
  neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\
     Same as {neighbor}, {neighboring}, {neighborhood},
     {neighborly}. [Chiefly Brit.]
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  neighbour
       adj : situated near one another; "neighbor states" [syn: {neighbor},
              {neighboring(a)}, {neighbouring(a)}]
       n 1: a person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: {neighbor}]
       2: a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor
          of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?"
          [syn: {neighbor}]
       v 1: live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house"
            [syn: {neighbor}]
       2: be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India"
          [syn: {neighbor}]