neighbour
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈneɪbə/
ipa: /ˈneɪbɚ/
rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ)
Forms: form: neighbours
form: neighbor
form: neyghbour
form: naybor
form: naybour
form: neibor
form: neibour
form: neighbore
form: neighboure
form: neyghbor
form: neyghbore
form: neyghboure
Etymology: From Middle English neyghebour, neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, from Old English nēahġebūr (“neighbour”), from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”, literally “near-dweller”), equivalent to nigh (“near”) + bower (“farmer”). Cognate with Scots nichbour (“neighbour”), Saterland Frisian Noaber (“neighbour”), Dutch nabuur (“neighbour”), German Low German Naber (“neighbour”), German Nachbar (“neighbour”), Danish nabo (“neighbour”), Norwegian nabo (“neighbour”), Icelandic nábúi (“neighbour”), Finnish naapuri (“neighbour”), Estonian naaber (“neighbour”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English prome (“neighbour”), borrowed from Old French proeme, proime, proisme (“neighbour”).
Senses: examples: text: My neighbour has two noisy cats.
text: They′re our neighbours across the street.
text: 1660, Hugh Peters, The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters, reprinted 1807, page 10,
Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a neighbour by him, and being somewhat merily disposed, quoth he Oh neighbour, did you not see what a wind there was the other day?
text: Undine at length shrank back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent down and picked it up.
ref: 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, published 2010, unnumbered page:
text: Neighbours enact their substantive noun when there′s a neighbour′s sickness in the night; as friends do theirs, the cindered and the green times through.
ref: 1973, Ernest Buckler, Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea, page 126:
text: 2009, D. Staufer, Classical Percolation, Asok K. Sen, Kamal K. Bardhan, Bikas K. Chakrabarti (editors), Quantum and Semi-Classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids, Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 762, page 4,
Then a cluster is grown by letting each empty neighbour of an already occupied cluster site decide once and for all, whether it is occupied or empty. One needs to keep and to update a perimeter list of empty neighbours.
text: 2011, Richard Jensen, Chris Cornelis, "Fuzzy-Rough Nearest Neighbour Classification", James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron (editors-in-chief), Transactions on Rough Sets XIII, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computing Science 6499, page 56,
By contrast to the latter, our method uses the nearest neighbours to construct lower and upper approximations of decision classes, and classifies test instances based on their membership to these approximations.
glosses: A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
examples: text: Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.
ref: c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
glosses: One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
examples: 1982, Bible (NKJV), Leviticus 19:18,
You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
glosses: A fellow human being.
examples: text: The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.
glosses: Anything located directly adjacent to something else.
Synonyms: word: bydweller
sense: Christian sense
word: fellow human being
sense: Christian sense
word: fellow
sense: Christian sense
word: fellow man
Derived terms: word: beat my neighbour out of doors
word: beat your neighbour out of doors
word: beggar-my-neighbour
word: beggar-thy-neighbour
word: good fences make good neighbours
word: love for one's neighbour
word: neighborred
word: neighbouress
word: neighbourhood
word: neighbouring
word: neighbourlike
word: neighbourliness
word: neighbourly
word: neighbourship
word: orthographic neighbour
word: phonological neighbour
word: text door neighbour
word: unneighboured