Neighbour

Definition: Neighbour

Neighbour

Adjective

1. Situated near one another; "neighbor states".

Noun

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

2. A nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?".

Verb

1. Live or be located as a neighbor.

2. Be located near or adjacent to.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "neighbour" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

Synonyms: Neighbour

Crosswords: Neighbour

Then my next door neighbour (Walk This Way; performing artist: Aerosmith)

Beggar My Neighbour (1967)

The Undesirable Neighbour (1963)

Our Northern Neighbour (1944)

Love Thy Neighbour (1914)

The Upstairs Neighbour (1994)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Love Your Neighbour for God's Sake: How to Introduce Jesus to Your Friends and Neighbours (reference)

• Neighbour and Other Stories (reference)

• Neighbour Rosicky (Creative's Classics) (reference)

• The Management of Ethnic Secessionist Conflict: The Big Neighbour Syndrome (reference)

• Understanding Your Jewish Neighbour (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Inspector Morse: Death is Now My Neighbour (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Love Thy Neighbour (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

But yet opposition may be made to the illegal acts of any inferior officer, or other commissioned by him; unless he will, by actually putting himself into a state of war with his people, dissolve the government, and leave them to that defence which belongs to every one in the state of nature: for of such things who can tell what the end will be? and a neighbour kingdom has shewed the world an odd example. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

I wish my health allowed me to be a better neighbour.

Each felt the impulse in himself, and, in the same breath, caught it from his neighbour.

This sleep in this solitude, with a neighbour such as he, contained a touch of the sublime, which he felt vaguely but powerfully

He would love his neighbour.

Good morrow, neighbour.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "neighbour": neighbour at table ♦ neighbour on the left ♦ neighbour upon ♦ neighbour with ♦ next door neighbour ♦ upstream neighbour address. Additional references.

Beginning with "neighbour": neighbour-joining, neighbour-ocean, neighbour-states.

Ending with "neighbour": nearest-neighbour, near-neighbour, next-door-neighbour.

Containing "neighbour": beggar-my-neighbour policy.

Afrikaans

buurman (neighbor). (various references)

Albanian

lagje (neighbor, neighborhood, neighbourhood, quarter, section, Square, Vicinage, ward), jam fqinj me (neighbor), i afërm (adjacent, agnate, allied, connection, connexion, familiar, family, fellow creature, folk, kin, kindred, kinsman, neighbor, next of kin, related, relation, relative, tribesman), gjiton (neighbor), fqinjë, fqinj (adjoining, conterminous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next door, vicinal). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مجاور (adjoining, contiguous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next door), ‏ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, kind, neighbor, neighborly, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sexy, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), ‏جارة (neighbor), ‏جار (current, cursive, neighbor, present, present day, progress, running), ‏الجيران (neighbor), ‏الأخ في الإ نسانية (neighbor). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съседски (neighbor), съседен съм на (neighbor), съседен (adjacent, adjoining, conterminal, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next, next door, vicinal), съсед (neighbor), гранича (abut upon, adjoin, bound, confine, neighbor, touch), ближен (fellow creature, neighbor), предмет съседен на друг (neighbor). (various references)

Catalan

veí (adjacent). (various references)

Chinese 

邻居 (neighbor, Neighboring, neighbouring). (various references)

Czech

sousedsky se stýkat (neighbor), sousedit (neighbor), soused (neighbor), bližní (neighbor). (various references)

Danish

nabo (adjoining owner, borderer, frontage). (various references)

Dutch

nabuur (neighbor), buurman (neighbor), buur (neighbor), gebuur (neighbor). (various references)

Esperanto

najbaro, proksimulo (fellow-creature). (various references)

Faeroese

granni (neighbor). (various references)

Finnish

naapuri (adjoining owner, borderer, frontage). (various references)

French

voisin (near, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next, next door). (various references)

Frisian

buorman (neighbor). (various references)

German

Nachbar (neighbor). (various references)

Greek 

γείτονας (adjoining owner, borderer, frontage). (various references)

Hawaiian

fqinjë. (various references)

Hebrew 

מצרן (abutter, borderer), לגבול עם (adjoin), שכן (neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring), בר מצר (abutter). (various references)

Hungarian

szomszéd (adjacent, neighbor, next), felebarát (neighbor). (various references)

Icelandic

granni. (various references)

Indonesian

tetangga (neighbor). (various references)

Irish

comharsa (neighbor). (various references)

Italian

vicino (about, adjacent, by, close, convenient, early, forthcoming, handy, near, near by, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next, nigh). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

隣人 (neighbourhood). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

りんじん (neighbourhood). (various references)

Korean 

이웃사람 (neighbor). (various references)

Manx

naboo. (various references)

Norwegian

nabo (neighbor). (various references)

Papiamen

bisiña. (various references)

Pig Latin

eighbournay.(various references)

Polish

sąsiad, bliźni (fellow-creature). (various references)

Portuguese

vizinho (near, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next door). (various references)

Romanian

vecin (neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next, next door, serf), semen (neighbor), seamãn (neighbor), se învecina cu (neighbor), fi în relaţii de prietenie (neighbor), apropiere (approach, approximation, closeness, coming, kindred, nearness, neighbor, neighborhood, neighbourhood, propinquity, proximity, vicinity), aproape (about, afar, all but, almost, anigh, approximately, as good as, at one's elbow, at the point of, close, close by, close upon, far, far away, hard, immediately, just about, little or nothing, near, near by, nearby, nearly, neighbor, nigh, remotely, some, soon, thereabouts), învecinat (adjacent, adjoining, close, contiguous, limitrophe, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next, next door). (various references)

Russian 

соседка (neighbor), соседний (nearby, near-by, neighbor, next, next door, surrounding, vicinal), сосед (neighbor), граничить сосед, граничить с (abut upon, border on, border upon, bound on, neighbor). (various references)

Scottish

coimhearsnach (a neighbour). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

susedski (neighbor, neighborly, neighbourly), susedan (near, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring), sused (neighbor), stanovati u susedstvu (neighbor), obližnji (near, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, vicinal), komšijski (neighbor, neighborly, neighbourly), komšija (neighbor), biti susedan (neighbor). (various references)

Spanish

vecino (adjacent, adjoining, citizen, denizen, local, near, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next, resident). (various references)

Sranan

birman. (various references)

Swedish

granne (neighbor). (various references)

Tagalog

kápitbahay. (various references)

Thai

ใกล้เคียง (nearby, neighbor), เพื่อนบ้าน (neighbor). (various references)

Turkish

yanında olmak (accompany, flank, neighbor, stand by, stand to), komxu, komşu olmak (neighbor), komşu (adjacent, contiguous, flanking, Jones, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next door, vicinal), bitişik olmak (abut, adjoin, be touching, border, neighbor, touch), bitişik (adjacent, adjoined, adjoining, attached, close, conjunct, connate, connected, contiguous, juxtaposed to, near, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next door). (various references)

Ukrainian

сусідка (neighbor), сусідній (adjacent, adjoining, near, nearby, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring, next, next door, surrounding), сусід (bor, neighbor), суміжний (abutting, adjacent, adjoining, communicating, conterminal, contiguous, neighbor, neighboring, neighbouring), найближчий (immediate, nearest, neighbor, next, next door, proximate), близький (agnate, akin, allied, approximate, congenial, contiguous, familiar, intimate, near, nearby, neighbor, nigh), ближній (neighbor). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người láng giềng, người hàng xóm, người ở bên cạnh, vật ở cạnh người đồng loại. (various references)

Zulu

umakhelwane. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "neighbour": neighboured, neighbouring, neighbours. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: neighbor.

-2 letters: bighorn, burgeon, roughen.

-3 letters: binger, biogen, bonier, boring, bougie, bourne, brogue, burnie, enough, eringo, gorhen, heroin, hinger, hoeing, hunger, ignore, nigher, orbing, ourebi, region, rehung, robing, rubigo, unrobe.

-4 letters: begin, begun, being, binge, bingo, bogie, boing, boner, borne, bough, bourg, bourn, brine, bring, brugh, bruin, burgh, burin, erugo, genro, giber, giron, goner.

+1 letter: neighbours.

+2 letters: beshrouding, neighboured.

+3 letters: interborough, neighbouring.

+4 letters: boardinghouse, housebreaking, interboroughs.

+5 letters: boardinghouses, hemoglobinuria, hemoglobinuric, housebreakings.