NEIGHBOUR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neighbour mean? 

• NEIGHBOUR (noun)
  The noun NEIGHBOUR has 2 senses:

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

2. a nearby object of the same kind

  Familiarity information: NEIGHBOUR used as a noun is rare.

• NEIGHBOUR (verb)
  The verb NEIGHBOUR has 2 senses:

1. live or be located as a neighbor

2. be located near or adjacent to

  Familiarity information: NEIGHBOUR used as a verb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEIGHBOUR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A person who lives (or is located) near another

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

neighbor; neighbour

Hypernyms ("neighbour" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Derivation:

neighbour (live or be located as a neighbor)

neighbourhood (people living near one another)

neighbourhood (a surrounding or nearby region)

neighbourly (exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A nearby object of the same kind

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

neighbor; neighbour

Context example:

what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?

Hypernyms ("neighbour" is a kind of...):

object; physical object (a tangible and visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow)

Derivation:

neighbour (be located near or adjacent to)

neighbourhood (a surrounding or nearby region)

• NEIGHBOUR (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they neighbour    ... he / she / it neighbours   
Past simple: neighboured   
Past participle: neighboured   
-ing form: neighbouring   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Live or be located as a neighbor

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

neighbor; neighbour

Context example:

the neighboring house

Hypernyms (to "neighbour" is one way to...):

dwell; inhabit; live; populate (be an inhabitant of or reside in)

Sentence frame:

Somebody ----s

Derivation:

neighbour (a person who lives (or is located) near another)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Be located near or adjacent to

Classified under:

Verbs of being, having, spatial relations

Synonyms:

neighbor; neighbour

Context example:

Pakistan neighbors India

Hypernyms (to "neighbour" is one way to...):

abut; adjoin; border; butt; butt against; butt on; edge; march (lie adjacent to another or share a boundary)

Sentence frame:

Something ----s something

Derivation:

neighbour (a nearby object of the same kind)

 Context examples 

I have the honour of being acquainted with a neighbour of yours, (turning to Emma,) a lady residing in or near Highbury; a family of the name of Fairfax.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Thirteen years had passed away since Lady Elliot's death, and they were still near neighbours and intimate friends, and one remained a widower, the other a widow.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

There was never any ceremony about the visits of such old friends and neighbours as we were.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

In the day, I believe, he worked sometimes for a neighbouring farmer, because he often went forth and did not return until dinner, yet brought no wood with him.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I do my neighbour’s when he goes.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Although it is currently 11 light-years from Earth, Ross 128 is moving towards us and is expected to become our nearest stellar neighbour in just 79 000 years.

(Closest Temperate World Orbiting Quiet Star Discovered, ESO)

When the number of clock proteins in one cell peaks, the cell communicates this to its slower neighbours, which follow the first cell’s lead and produce more clock proteins too.

(Plants can tell time even without a brain, University of Cambridge)

One of his neighbours, who did not seem to bear him any affection, said that he had gone away two days before, no one knew whither.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He was well liked by the few neighbours who called upon him, and he has the reputation down there of being a very learned man.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For example, if my neighbour has a mind to my cow, he has a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)