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Neighbor

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. One who lives near or next to another.

n. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another.

n. A fellow human.

n. Used as a form of familiar address.

v. To lie close to or border directly on.

verb-intransitive. To live or be situated close by.

adj. Situated or living near another: a neighbor state.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. Alternative spelling of neighbour.

v. Alternative spelling of neighbour.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.

n. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

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

adj. Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.

v. To adjoin; to border on; to be near to.

v. To associate intimately with.

verb-intransitive. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. One who lives near another; one who forms part of a circumscribed community; a person in relation to those who dwell near him, in the houses adjacent, or, by extension, in the same village or town.

n. One who stands or sits near another; one in close proximity.

n. A person in relation to his fellow-men, regarded as having social and moral duties toward them.

n. One who lives on friendly terms with another: often used as a familiar term of address: as, neighbor Jones.

n. An intimate; a confidant.

Neighboring; adjacent; situated or dwelling near or in neighborhood: as, the neighbor village; neighbor farmers.

To border on or be near to.

To make near or familiar.

To inhabit or occupy the same vicinity as neighbors; dwell near one another as members of the same community; be in the neighborhood; be neighborly or friendly.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. live or be located as a neighbor

n. a nearby object of the same kind

v. be located near or adjacent to

n. a person who lives (or is located) near another

Word Usage

"The place across the street was hit, next door was hit, another neighbor has a full time watchman and my only other neighbor is a B & B and there are always enough people there to scare off the burglars. jerezano"

Verb Form

neighbors

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

dwell populate inhabit live physical object

Cross Reference

help your neighbor good neighbors

Form

neighbored neighboring

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

adjoining adjacent next neighboring adjoin

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Aber Baber Haber Labor Labour

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

neighbour cousin uncle companion sister