Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One who lives near or next to another.
- n. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.
- n. A fellow human.
- n. Used as a form of familiar address.
- v. To lie close to or border directly on.
- v. To live or be situated close by.
- adj. Situated or living near another: a neighbor state.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. 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.
- n. One who stands or sits near another; one in close proximity.
- n. A person in relation to his fellow-men, regarded as having social and moral duties toward them.
- n. One who lives on friendly terms with another: often used as a familiar term of address: as, neighbor Jones.
- n. 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.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
- n. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
- n. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
- adj. Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.
- v. To adjoin; to border on; to be near to.
- v. To associate intimately with.
- v. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.
WordNet 3.0
- v. live or be located as a neighbor
- n. a nearby object of the same kind
- v. be located near or adjacent to
- n. a person who lives (or is located) near another
Etymologies
- Middle English neighebor, from Old English nēahgebūr : nēah, near + gebūr, dweller; see bheuə- in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“Bearing false witness against your neighbor is a big sin.”
“Spain still has a King and my neighbor is a Baron. 3 people live in a giant palacio in the heart of the city.”
“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”
“Now he owns a $5 million house in Pacific Palisades, where his neighbor is the actor Adam Sandler.”
“We assist our neighbor, and in this case our neighbor is our colleagues.”
“I pity those Christians who fail to love their neighbor because their neighbor is a Muslim.”
“Well, my neighbor is apparently hale and hearty and making a lot of noise musically, which sort of puts the kibosh on my intention to redo the intro and end titles for Midsummer's first act now that the remix is done (some levels needed adjusting, and I re-EQ'd David Ault.)”
Taking delivery of two cases of catgut and three cases of whisky
“Yes, I would rather face the Rockets, but mostly because my neighbor is a huge Yao/Rockets fan … from Houston … who loves Jesus.”
“So I called my neighbor Alan Christiansen, aka the Dog Listener, for a consultation.”
“UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I called my neighbor who lives on the other side of the building, and I asked him if he heard the same thing.”
Lists
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brtom 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" Jul 18, 2008