neighbour
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.
Example
“My neighbour has two noisy cats.”
Other meanings
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
A fellow human being.
Related words
- neighborred
- neighbouress
- neighbourlike
- neighbourship
- unneighboured
- beat my neighbour out of doors
- beggar-my-neighbour
- beggar-thy-neighbour
- text door neighbour
- love for one's neighbour
- beat your neighbour
Word history
From Old English "nēahġebūr".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “neighbour” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.