neighbour
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: compound
Topics: biblical
lifestyle
religion
Etymology: From Middle English neahhebur, neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, nehhebur, neyburwe, neyebore, neyghebour, neypur, neȝbore, neȝhbor, neȝȝebour, from Old English nēahġebūr (“neighbour”), from Proto-West Germanic *nāhwagabūrō, from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”, literally “near-dweller”), from *nēhwaz (“close, near”) + *gabūrô (“dweller”). Equivalent to nigh (“near”) + bower (“farmer”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots nebour, neebour, neibour (“neighbour”), Yola nipore, nypore (“neighbour”), North Frisian Naiber, naibüür, näiber (“neighbour”), Saterland Frisian Noaber (“neighbour”), Alemannic German Naachpuur, Nochbär (“neighbour”), Central Franconian Nohber (“neighbour”), Dutch nabuur (“neighbour”), Low German Naber, Nahwer (“neighbour”), German Nachbar (“neighbour”), Luxembourgish Noper (“neighbour”), Vilamovian nokwer, nökver, nökwer (“neighbour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish nabo (“neighbour”), Faroese nábúgvi (“neighbour”), Icelandic nábúi (“neighbour”), Manx naboo (“neighbour”), Scottish Gaelic nàbaidh (“neighbour”), Estonian naaber (“neighbour”), Finnish naapuri (“neighbour”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English prome (“neighbour”), borrowed from Old French proeme, proime, proisme (“neighbour”) (<< Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
Compound parts: nigh
bower
Inflected forms:
form: neighbours
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: neighbor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
US
form: neighba
pos: noun
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: neyghbour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
archaic
form: naybour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neibor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neibour
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neighbore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neighboure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neyghbor
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neyghbore
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neyghboure
pos: noun
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neighbours
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: neighbouring
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: neighboured
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: neighboured
pos: verb
tags: past
form: neighbor
pos: verb
tags: alternative
US
form: neighba
pos: verb
tags: alternative
pronunciation-spelling
form: neyghbour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
archaic
form: naybour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neibor
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neibour
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neighbore
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neighboure
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neyghbor
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neyghbore
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
form: neyghboure
pos: verb
tags: alternative
obsolete
Senses:
gloss: 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.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: My neighbour has two noisy cats.
They′re our neighbours across the street.
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?
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.
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.
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.
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.
gloss: One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.
gloss: A fellow human being.
pos: noun
tags: UK
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.
gloss: Anything located directly adjacent to something else.
pos: noun
tags: UK
examples: The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.
gloss: To be adjacent to
pos: verb
tags: UK
transitive
examples: Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
Theſe grow at the South end of the Iland, and on the leiſurely aſcending hills that neighbour the ſhore.
[…] who neighbourest the rock-born rill, / Thou Hermes!
OUR GOD, we bless Thee that Thy rainbow is on the cloud. […] Such things are too high. We can not attain unto them. But no matter. We catch the many lights the rainbow wears. Thou neighborest with our cloud.
gloss: To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
pos: verb
tags: UK
figuratively
intransitive
examples: That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
gloss: To associate intimately with; to be close to.
pos: verb
tags: UK
examples: […] the barbarous Scythyan, […] / Shall bee as well neighbour’d, pittyed and relieued / As thou my ſometime daughter.
Synonyms: bydweller
fellow human being
fellow
fellow man
Antonyms: stranger
foreigner
Derived words: beat my neighbour out of doors
beat your neighbour out of doors
beggar-my-neighbour
beggar-thy-neighbour
good fences make good neighbours
love for one's neighbour
neighborred
neighbouress
neighbourhood
neighbouring
neighbourlike
neighbourliness
neighbourly
neighbourship
orthographic neighbour
phonological neighbour
text door neighbour
unneighboured
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