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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
neighbour
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
▪ Tau Ceti is a close neighbour, at a distance of only 12 light-years.
▪ His father happens to be a close neighbour of mine in the village of Comerford, that's all.
▪ In it, the feral mink often finds itself to be a close neighbour to vulnerable domestic stock.
▪ He could hardly adapt the style of the building's closest neighbour, the Soviet-like Novotel Hotel.
▪ As a close friend and neighbour of the elderly painter, Osterlind used to visit Renoir every day.
good
▪ Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour.
▪ I have to rely on the kindness of a good neighbour to hang out my washing.
▪ When the elders at our place began to fall ill, Mrs Thwaites was the best neighbour we could have.
near
▪ A fellow farmer and near neighbour in Duns, Ian was an enthusiastic amateur racing driver.
▪ A near neighbour was recruited as a support worker and she too began to become involved in the family arguments.
▪ The library of course was gutted, but Walker Books, a near neighbour of the school, is coming to the rescue.
▪ The nearest neighbour, a farmer well into his seventies, was more than five miles and a range of low hills away.
▪ Charlton Heston lived on the other side and Warren Beatty was also a near neighbour.
▪ Does your nearest neighbour have a higher profile in the area?
▪ For example, development of spatial retrieval techniques and nearest neighbour analyses which can operate with fuzzy data.
■ NOUN
door
▪ It was their next door neighbour, the woman with the red hair.
▪ A next door neighbour stepped in to help by lending his car to get her family to Chelmsford station, she said.
▪ Fortunately my next door neighbour came round to tell me to stay indoors.
■ VERB
ask
▪ Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival.
▪ Lock any shed, garage or outhouse. Ask a neighbour to keep an eye on your house.
▪ A man came into her house asking after a neighbour and then for a glass of water.
love
▪ A New commandment I give unto you, you are to love your neighbour as yourself.
▪ And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.
▪ We are required to love one another, love our neighbour and to love our marriage partner.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
next-door neighbour
▪ Could some one tell my next-door neighbour, Mrs Timms?
▪ For the past year, she has suffered from incontinence, but her kind next-door neighbour has done regular washing for her.
▪ He could be the next-door neighbour, a friend, a blood relation.
▪ Her next-door neighbour, Philippa, was sitting on the draining-board kicking her legs up and down.
▪ I haven't had any trouble with him personally, but my next-door neighbour has.
▪ It's a compliment, by the way: Philippa is my next-door neighbour and startlingly beautiful.
▪ Next time you chat with your next-door neighbour, you are relieved to find that you don't fancy him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ And when they have cleared go round to see some neighbour.
▪ Each standing stone collects the raw power and channels it to its inward neighbour.
▪ One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour, who insists I pay for the call.
▪ She won a beauty competition in her local newspaper in 1981 after being nominated by a neighbour.
▪ This shadowing phenomenon can be used to determine nearest neighbour interatomic distances in surfaces.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
neighbour

neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\, neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\ Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [Chiefly Brit.]

neighbour

Neighbor \Neigh"bor\ (n[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [OE. neighebour, AS. ne['a]hgeb[=u]r; ne['a]h nigh + geb[=u]r a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. n[=a]hgib[=u]r. See Nigh, and Boor.] [Spelt also neighbour.]

  1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
    --Chaucer.

    Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors.
    --Shak.

  2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

    Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel.
    --Shak.

  3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.

    Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
    --Luke x. 36.

    The gospel allows no such term as ``stranger;'' makes every man my neighbor.
    --South.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
neighbour

chiefly British English spelling of neighbor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or.

Wiktionary
neighbour

n. 1 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. 2 One who is near in sympathy or confidence. 3 (context biblical English) any fellow human being vb. 1 (context transitive English) To be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring) 2 (context intransitive followed by "on"; figurative English) To approach; to verge on. 3 To associate intimately with.

WordNet
neighbour

adj. situated near one another; "neighbor states" [syn: neighbor, neighboring(a), neighbouring(a)]

neighbour
  1. n. a person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: neighbor]

  2. a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?" [syn: neighbor]

  3. v. live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house" [syn: neighbor]

  4. be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India" [syn: neighbor]

Wikipedia

Usage examples of "neighbour".

As he was an actressy little fellow, he put on a great show of lamentation for the neighbours, referring to the departure from his starving country as a white martyrdom.

Christmas Eve the Soviets have overrun the neighbouring airfield at Tazinskaja, 30 miles west, where a transport squadron of our command is stationed.

Last night it happened, my album Paul Is Live was playing and Neighbours was on the telly, and the two playing together totally reminded me of the sixties!

While you were treating them it would have spread to neighbouring farms, then all over the country.

The Ameer of the neighbouring country of Afghanistan claims the sovereignty over the khanates Shugnan and Roshan, which form the larger portion of the Pamirs.

And childe Leopold did up his beaver for to pleasure him and took apertly somewhat in amity for he never drank no manner of mead which he then put by and anon full privily he voided the more part in his neighbour glass and his neighbour nist not of this wile.

Wherever the horse was stopped, Arjun fought and conquered, and thus proclaimed the supremacy of Yudhishthir over all neighbouring potentates.

He went fishing with the artel fishermen, leaving Sergei and Natasha in the care of the neighbours sometimes for as long as three days.

He had nothing for it but to endeavour to be the first to convey the already-blown news to Sir John Peachy, sheriff for Kent: his pains were rewarded by his being detained prisoner as a suspected person, while Sir John mustered his yeomanry, and, together with the neighbouring gentry and their retainers, marched towards Hythe, The wavering people, awed by this show of legal and military power, grew cool towards the White Rose, whose name, linked to change and a diminution of taxation, had for a moment excited their enthusiasm.

He hired land also of a tenant of the Basha, and sent wool and milk by the hand of a neighbour to the market at Tetuan.

A dreadful silence reigned for four or five minutes, but the canoness began to utter witticisms which I took up and communicated to my neighbours, so that in a short time the whole table was in good spirits except the general, who preserved a sulky silence.

All the guests began to clap, and my fair neighbour blushed with pleasure.

Mistress Belding, with a haughty look at her unaccommodating neighbour.

On learning her husband had been so unfortunate while their neighbours had been successful, she suspected the nets were bewitched, and therefore procured consecrated water wherewith to sprinkle them.

John, like all the other local children, had been invited up to the hall for the biannual parties her grandparents gave for their tenants and neighbours.