Crossword clues for neighbour
neighbour
- Person living nearby
- Bizarrely, "our big hen" is how Sunak might describe Johnson
- Being troubled about front of house, our resident down the street?
- Day out in Edinburgh spoilt after entry of old person from one's home town?
- Unexpectedly huge, Robin Hood’s person?
- Person next door
- Next-door occupant
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\, neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\ Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [Chiefly Brit.]
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.]
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A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
--Chaucer.Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors.
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One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel.
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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
chiefly British English spelling of neighbor (q.v.); for spelling, see -or.
Wiktionary
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
adj. situated near one another; "neighbor states" [syn: neighbor, neighboring(a), neighbouring(a)]
n. a person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: neighbor]
a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?" [syn: neighbor]
v. live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house" [syn: neighbor]
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.