Definitions
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- noun The state or condition of being a
neighbour ;neighbourhood ;neighbourship . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
neighbour .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Ed Miliband set out his demands for a commission of inquiry in a speech on Monday at Haverstock school, the comprehensive he attended in north London, which neighboured some of the scenes of violence last week.
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They should feel lucky to be neighboured with such a merciful neighbour, instead of the bitter twisted bilious mentality that they show.
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009
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“Very weakly, sir, since I took the electuary,” answered the patient; “it neighboured ill with the two spoonfuls of pease-porridge and the kirnmilk.”
The Abbot 2008
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The Etruscan-speaking areas especially neighboured and overlapped with Umbrian areas.
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A dusty pile of old newspaper in one corner, neighboured by a books and magazines.
Bachelor tadka bhags 2007
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A dusty pile of old newspaper in one corner, neighboured by a books and magazines.
Archive 2007-11-01 bhags 2007
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In this work of art he was represented as standing with his pistol to his mouth, his brains being in process of flying up to the roof of his chamber, and his native princess rushing terror-stricken away to a remote position in the thicket of palms which neighboured the dwelling.
Two on a Tower 2006
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The Parisian crowd supported by many from the neighboured countries greeted them enthusiastically.
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Riuers, and maigne floudes, whiche afore with vnbrideled violence, oftymes ouerflowed the neighboured aboute, to the destruction of their cattle, their houses, and themselues: thei restrained with bancques, and kept them in a course.
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The house was so closely neighboured by shrubberies on three of its sides that it was not till she had gone nearly round it that she found the little door.
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