Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun One who lives near or next to another.
- noun A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.
- noun A fellow human.
- noun Used as a form of familiar address.
- intransitive verb To lie close to or border directly on.
- intransitive verb To live or be situated close by.
- adjective Situated or living near another.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who lives near another; one who forms part of a circumscribed community; a person in relation to those who dwell near him, in the houses adjacent, or, by extension, in the same village or town.
- noun One who stands or sits near another; one in close proximity.
- noun A person in relation to his fellow-men, regarded as having social and moral duties toward them.
- noun One who lives on friendly terms with another: often used as a familiar term of address: as, neighbor Jones.
- noun An intimate; a confidant.
- Neighboring; adjacent; situated or dwelling near or in neighborhood: as, the neighbor village; neighbor farmers.
- To border on or be near to.
- To make near or familiar.
- To inhabit or occupy the same vicinity as neighbors; dwell near one another as members of the same community; be in the neighborhood; be neighborly or friendly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To adjoin; to border on; to be near to.
- transitive verb obsolete To associate intimately with.
- noun A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
- noun One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
- noun One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
- adjective Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.
- intransitive verb obsolete To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun US Alternative spelling of
neighbour . - verb US Alternative spelling of
neighbour .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb live or be located as a neighbor
- noun a nearby object of the same kind
- verb be located near or adjacent to
- noun a person who lives (or is located) near another
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano
Crime in Ajijic 2009
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The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano
Crime in Ajijic 2009
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The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano
Crime in Ajijic 2009
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The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano
Crime in Ajijic 2009
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The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano
Crime in Ajijic 2009
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Spain still has a King and my neighbor is a Baron. 3 people live in a giant palacio in the heart of the city.
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Bearing false witness against your neighbor is a big sin.
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The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano
Crime in Ajijic 2009
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The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano
Crime in Ajijic 2009
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The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano
Crime in Ajijic 2009
brtom commented on the word neighbor
I listened to the talk of my kinsmen and neighbors as I never had done, alert to their knowledge of the place, and to the qualities and energies of their speech. Wendell Berry "A Native Hill"
July 19, 2008