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noun

Neighbor n. (Spelt also neighbour)

A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. "Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors."

One who is near in sympathy or confidence. "Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel."

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?" "The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor."

verb

neighbor v. t. (past & past part. neighbored; pres. part. neighboring)

To adjoin; to border on; to be near to. "Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore."

To associate intimately with. (Obs.)

Neighbor v. i. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near. (Obs.) "A copse that neighbors by."

adjective

Neighbor adj. Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. "The neighbor cities." "The neighbor room."

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Etymology of 'Neighbor'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Neighbor" Quotes from Famous Books

... what argument Thy life to thy neighbor's creed has lent. All are needed by each one; Nothing is ...

— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett

... man to walk into a strange house in a distant village, find a girl who is secreted there, frighten her, cajole her, force her, as the case may be, from her hiding-place to a detective's office in New York, and all without the knowledge of the next-door neighbor, if possible, requires judgment, brains, genius. Then the woman who conceals her I She must have her reasons for doing so; and they must be known. Altogether, the affair is a delicate one. Do you ...

— The Leavenworth Case • Anna Katharine Green

... to strike for world mastery. The world empire that I then dreamed of was to create for the German empire on all sides the most absolute confidence as a quiet, honest and peaceable neighbor. I have vowed that if ever the time came when history should speak of a German world power or a Hohenzollern world power this should not be based on conquest, but come through a mutual striving of nations ...

— A History of The Nations and Empires Involved and a Study - of the Events Culminating in The Great Conflict • Logan Marshall

... Emerson loaned his Plato to a neighbor. Meeting him some time afterward he said to him: "How did you like Plato?" "Very much," the farmer answered, "very much indeed. I see he has a great many of my idees." And so, my readers—if there be such—there may be herein ...

— Insights and Heresies Pertaining to the Evolution of the Soul • Anna Bishop Scofield

... And living neighbor to the White Horse Girl in the same prairie country, with the same black crows flying over their places, was the Blue Wind Boy. All the years he grew up as a boy he liked to walk with his feet in the dirt and the grass listening to the ...

— Rootabaga Stories • Carl Sandburg

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