neigh|bor

neigh|bor
neigh|bor «NAY buhr», noun, verb, adjective.
–n.
1. someone who lives in the next house or nearby: »

I called him my neighbour, because his plantation lay next to mine (Daniel Defoe).

2. a person or thing that is near or next to another: »

The big tree brought down several of its smaller neighbors as it fell.

3. a fellow human being: »

Love thy neighbor.

–v.i.
1. to live or be near (to): »

a copse that neighbours by (Shakespeare). He seemed…to suck in fresh vigour from the soil which he neighboured (Charles Lamb).

2. to be friendly (with).
–v.t.
1. to touch or border upon; adjoin: »

The United States neighbors Canada to the north and Mexico to the south.

2. to place or bring near: »

So neighbour'd to him, and yet so unseen, She stood (Keats).

–adj.
living or situated near to another; nearby: »

two neighbor farms.

╂[Old English nēahgebūr < nēah nigh, nearer + geb ūr dweller, countryman]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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