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Definition: Neighbor |
NeighborAdjective1. Situated near one another; "neighbor states". Noun1. 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?". Verb1. 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 "neighbor" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Satire | NEIGHBOR, n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves, and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | One who knows more about your affairs than yourself. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Dream Interpretation | To see your neighbors in your dreams, denotes many profitable hours will be lost in useless strife and gossip. If they appear sad, or angry, it foretells dissensions and quarrels. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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Synonyms: NeighborSynonyms: neighboring(a) (adj), neighbouring(a) (adj), neighbour (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Friend | Acquaintance, neighbor, next-door neighbor, casual acquaintance, nodding acquaintance; wellwisher. |
Nearness | Bystander; neighbor, borderer. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Neighbor |
| English words defined with "neighbor": combatively, Confiner ♦ kind ♦ Neighbored, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nosey, nosy ♦ prying ♦ Right of drip ♦ scrappily, snoopy ♦ thoughtful, Thread needle, tolerant ♦ unneighborly, unneighbourly ♦ want, working. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "neighbor": Christian, Coal-hod, Conversation ♦ Decalogue, Devil, Disabuse ♦ Elder ♦ Guiding center ♦ Landscape indexes ♦ NN ♦ Older ♦ pogo ♦ responsibility, right, righteousness ♦ Sabbath, sheriff, Station Management, story ♦ technicality, Try and ♦ Wasn't. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "neighbor": Viinage. (references) |
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Screenplays | Stay away from the window, we've got a very nosy neighbor, mrs. Ochmonek (ALF; writing credit: Alberto Fischerman; Rodolfo Rabanal) Heidely-ho, neighbor. Wanna go to the game with me (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) D'you know that my next door neighbor has three rabbits (Jerry Maguire; writing credit: Cameron Crowe) The good Lord, you know, padre, he want us to love our neighbor, no roast him, mmm (The Pit and the Pendulum; writing credit: Dennis Paoli; Edgar Allan Poe) I see a buck on the ground, I pick it up. Sometimes I take more than 10 items right through the express lane, and I have a temper, like my neighbor plays his music too loud (Carpool; writing credit: Don Rhymer) | |
Lyrics | Then my next door neighbor with a daughter had a favor ("Walk This Way"; performing artist: Aerosmith) Did you shout out in anger, in fear for your neighbor (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson) Meet your neighbor in the chapel (Crying in the Chapel; performing artist: Elvis Presley) | |
Clever | Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins. (references; author: Sioux Proverb) 668: The Neighbor of the Beast. (references; author: unknown) Your neighbor is the man who needs you. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Love Thy Neighbor (1973) Belabout Thy Neighbor (1970) Love Thy Neighbor and His Wife (1970) Good Neighbor Nudnik (1966) Your Neighbor the World (1959) | |
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 | USS Chester (CA-27) approaches the pier at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, while preparing to dock, 27 November 1936. At right, already tied up, is USS Indianapolis (CA-35), which was carrying President Roosevelt. Note the crowds awaiting the President, who was making his first stop during the "Good Neighbor" cruise. Credit: NAVY. |  | Agony of a caller discovering that her neighbor has nineteen electroliers in the ... Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Prosperity barometer. Our neighbor whose name is on all the sucker lists says mail is almost back to normal --. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Duane Seely, neighbor of Anton Weber, Tompkins County, New York. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Lunch was served in the farmhouse by neighbor ladies during Frank Sheroan's closing-out sale. Montmorenci, Indiana. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Wife and child of one of the members of the Two Rivers Cooperative Company, FSA (Farm Security Administration) project, with a neighbor at Waterloo, Nebraska. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Mrs. Harry Mercer and neighbor Betty McClay, picking corn to be dried and stored for home use. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Orville Wright and Edwin H. Sines, neighbor and boyhood friend, filing frames in the back of the Wright bicycle shop. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Daniel Henderson, neighbor, in front of Wright home at 7 Hawthorn Street, Dayton, Ohio. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Edwin H. Sines, neighbor of the Wright brothers and partner in their early printing business, in printing office. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Scooter stop" by Jerry Zee Commentary: "Neighbor kid on scooter, close up of front wheel." | "Man's best friend" by Michelle Kwajafa Commentary: "Footprints of my neighbor walking his two dogs in the snow." |
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| Author | Quotation |
Benjamin Franklin | Love thy neighbor -- but don't pull down your hedge. |
Elbert Hubbard | Your neighbor is the man who needs you. |
Francis Quarles | Flatter not thyself in thy faith in God if thou hast not charity for thy neighbor. |
Frederick Farrar | One's liberty should end when it becomes the curse of his neighbor. |
Hesiod | A bad neighbor is a misfortune, as much as a good one is a great blessing. |
Irving Layton | My neighbor doesn't want to be loved as much as he wants to be envied. |
Ronald Reagan | Recession is when a neighbor loses his job. Depression is when you lose yours. |
Sioux Proverb | Before I judge my neighbor, let me walk a mile in his moccasins. |
Socrates | The envious person grows lean with the fatness of their neighbor. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | His neighbor stole a squinting look |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | For example, if my neighbor has a mind to my cow, he hires a lawyer to prove that he ought to have my cow from me. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | In this field neighbor and Mercosur partner Brazil seems to have the upper hand in terms of attracting this type of investment. (references) | |
New Zealand’s nearest neighbor is Australia, 1,600 kilometers to the west. There are three main centers, Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch. (references) | ||
Children | Uganda | Only a small fraction of these incidents is reported, especially when the perpetrator is a family member, neighbor, or teacher--as often is the case. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | At year's end, neither the neighbor nor anyone in the crowd had been arrested or questioned in connection with the incident, and police took no steps to find or return any of Nawaz's property. (references) |
Economic History | Bangladesh | India is Bangladesh's most important neighbor. (references) |
Human Rights | Nicaragua | On June 12, police officer Miguel Angel Zapata Gomez shot and wounded his neighbor, Bartolo Perez Rodriguez during an argument in Boaco. (references) |
Cuba | A neighbor had accused del Pino of threatening to kill her, and police initiated legal proceedings against her on the basis of this accusation. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | In 1999 the Chitungwiza police arrested, detained for 6 months, and allegedly tortured a married couple, Joyce and Shupikai Karimazondo, and another person, John Mita, in response to allegations by a neighbor that they had killed their young domestic worker for ritual purposes. (references) | |
Minorities | Bulgaria | The neighbor, Marko Markov, was a fireman and had shot Sashev with his government-issue handgun. (references) |
Slovak Republic | For example, 66 percent of the population would not want to have a Roma neighbor, compared to 86 percent in a 1999 poll. (references) | |
Bulgaria | In November 2000, in Botevgrad, a neighbor shot and injured Asen Sashev, a 14-year-old Roma youth during an altercation. (references) | |
Political Economy | Morocco | Civil unrest and religious violence, which continue to plague Morocco's eastern neighbor Algeria, have not spread to Morocco. (references) |
Lesotho | Lesotho, which has a population of approximately 2.15 million, is a landlocked country surrounded by South Africa and almost entirely dependent on its sole neighbor for access to the outside world. (references) | |
Zimbabwe | South Africa, the country most affected by Zimbabwe's political and economic deterioration, appears increasingly frustrated that its "quiet diplomacy" approach toward its northern neighbor has not achieved more positive results. (references) | |
Trade | Venezuela | Bilateral commerce with Colombia has increased substantially as a result of Venezuela's free trade arrangement with its neighbor. (references) |
Worker Rights | Thailand | Impoverished families send or sell children to traffickers, often a neighbor, a local official, or some other respected local person. (references) |
India | Most transactions are carried out with the complicity of family member or neighbor, and at times the parents who know the true intent but feign ignorance. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | DISABUSE, v.t. The present your neighbor with another and better error than the one which he has deemed it advantageous to embrace. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
John Walsh | I don't think so. I really think that the media, you know, looking to fill a lot of air time, is saying, Well, this country was built on freedoms and the First Amendment rights and, you know, you'll be accusing your neighbor, et cetera. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Bush | 1989-1993 | The State of the Union depends on whether we help our neighbor, claim the problems of our community as our own. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | We have to be at the center of every vital global network, as a good neighbor and a good partner. |
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| "Neighbor" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Neighbor" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "neighbor" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Neighbor | Last name | 200 | 37,281 |
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Expressions using "neighbor": nearest neighbor algorithm ♦ neighbor on the left ♦ neighbor upon ♦ neighbor with ♦ next door neighbor. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "neighbor": beggar-my-neighbor, beggar-thy-neighbor, good-neighbor. | |
Containing "neighbor": beggar-my-neighbor policy, good-neighbor policy. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
neighbor | 964 | disney gate good hotel main neighbor | 38 |
neighbor from hell | 335 | neighbor royal | 37 |
naughty neighbor | 207 | neighbor girl | 36 |
neighbor nude | 142 | horny neighbor | 36 |
neighbor wife | 134 | find your neighbor | 35 |
naked neighbor | 131 | daughter neighbor | 31 |
neighbor redneck | 94 | disney good neighbor | 31 |
zombies ate my neighbor | 91 | revenge neighbor | 31 |
neighbor sexy | 79 | neighbor scorpius | 31 |
neighbor sex | 74 | neighbor problem | 29 |
bad neighbor | 70 | neighbor pic | 29 |
my neighbor totoro | 66 | ate neighbor rom zombies | 27 |
next door neighbor | 64 | neighbor dispute | 26 |
neighbor simpsons | 59 | good neighbor policy | 24 |
noisy neighbor | 52 | jim neighbor | 24 |
good neighbor | 43 | neighbor trinidads | 22 |
hot neighbor | 42 | cast neighbor | 22 |
from game hell neighbor | 42 | disney good neighbor hotel | 22 |
neighbor dog barking | 22 | ||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "neighbor"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | buurman (neighbour). (various references) | |
Albanian | lagje (neighborhood, neighbour, neighbourhood, quarter, section, Square, Vicinage, ward), jam fqinj me (neighbour), i afërm (adjacent, agnate, allied, connection, connexion, familiar, family, fellow creature, folk, kin, kindred, kinsman, neighbour, next of kin, related, relation, relative, tribesman), gjiton (neighbour), fqinj (adjoining, conterminous, nearby, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door, vicinal). (various references) | |
Arabic | مجاور (adjoining, contiguous, nearby, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door), ودي (amiable, bluff, brotherly, cordial, fraternal, friendly, genial, good natured, heartfelt, hearty, intimate, kind, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly, nice, outgoing, pally, sexy, sympathetic, warm, well disposed), جارة (neighbour), جار (current, cursive, neighbour, present, present day, progress, running), الجيران (neighbour), الأخ في الإ نسانية (neighbour). (various references) | |
Asturian | vecín. (various references) | |
Aymara | utajak'a. (various references) | |
Bemba | umwinamupalamano. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | съседски (neighbour), съседен съм на (neighbour), съседен (adjacent, adjoining, conterminal, conterminous, contiguous, coterminous, nearby, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door, vicinal), съсед (neighbour), гранича (abut upon, adjoin, bound, confine, neighbour, touch), ближен (fellow creature, neighbour), предмет съседен на друг (neighbour). (various references) | |
Cebuano | silingan. (various references) | |
Chamorro | bisinu (neighborhood). (various references) | |
Chinese | 鄰居 , 鄰 (adjacent, close to), 邻居 (Neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring), 比鄰 (near, next to, next-door neighbor). (various references) | |
Cornish | kentrevak. (various references) | |
Czech | sousedsky se stýkat (neighbour), sousedit (neighbour), soused (neighbour), bližní (neighbour). (various references) | |
Danish | nærmeste-nabo-algoritme (nearest neighbor algorithm), princippet om naermeste nabo (nearest neighbor concept, nearest neighbour concept). (various references) | |
Dutch | nabuur (neighbour), gebuur (neighbour), buurman (neighbour), buur (neighbour). (various references) | |
Ecuadorian Quechua | cuchullapi causac. (various references) | |
Faeroese | granni (neighbour). (various references) | |
Farsi | مجاور (Adjacent, Against, Contiguous, Next, Nigh), همسایه شدن با, همسایه (Adjacent), نزدیک (About, Adjacent, At, Beside, Besides, By, Close, Contiguous, Hailfellow, In, Near, Nigh, Proximate, Upcoming). (various references) | |
Finnish | "lähin naapuri"-algoritmi (nearest neighbor algorithm). (various references) | |
French | voisin (near, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door). (various references) | |
Frisian | buorman (neighbour). (various references) | |
German | nachbar (neighbour). (various references) | |
Greek | γειτόνισσα (female neighbour, neighbour), γειτονεύω (adjoin, neighbour), γείτων (neighbour), γείτονασ (neighbour). (various references) | |
Hebrew | שכן (neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring). (various references) | |
Hungarian | szomszéd (adjacent, neighbour, next), felebarát (neighbour). (various references) | |
Indonesian | tetangga (neighbour). (various references) | |
Inuktitut | salliliit. (various references) | |
Irish | comharsa (neighbour). (various references) | |
Italian | vicino (about, adjacent, by, close, convenient, early, forthcoming, handy, near, near by, nearby, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, nigh). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 隣人を訴える (to sue one's neighbor), 善隣政策 (Good Neighbor Policy), 合壁 (neighbor with just a wall between). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | がっぺき (cliff, neighbor with just a wall between, precipice), ぜんりんせいさく (Good Neighbor Policy), りんじんをうったえる (to sue one's neighbor). (various references) | |
Kongo | nkundi. (various references) | |
Korean | 이웃사람 (neighbour). (various references) | |
Macedonian | sosed. (various references) | |
Norwegian | nabo (neighbour). (various references) | |
Papago | miabithch. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eighbornay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | vizinho (near, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door). (various references) | |
Provencal | vesin. (various references) | |
Romanian | vecin (neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door, serf), semen (neighbour), seamãn (neighbour), se învecina cu (neighbour), fi în relaţii de prietenie (neighbour), apropiere (approach, approximation, closeness, coming, kindred, nearness, neighborhood, neighbour, 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, neighbour, nigh, remotely, some, soon, thereabouts), învecinat (adjacent, adjoining, close, contiguous, limitrophe, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door). (various references) | |
Romansch | vischin. (various references) | |
Ruanda | ababanyi. (various references) | |
Russian | сосед (neighbour). (various references) | |
Samoan | tuaoi. (various references) | |
Sepedi | moagiaani. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | susedski (neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly), susedan (near, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring), sused (neighbour), stanovati u susedstvu (neighbour), obližnji (near, nearby, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, vicinal), komšijski (neighborly, neighbour, neighbourly), komšija (neighbour), biti susedan (neighbour). (various references) | |
Shona | muvakidzani. (various references) | |
Spanish | vecino (adjacent, adjoining, citizen, denizen, local, near, nearby, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, resident), la vecina, el vecino. (various references) | |
Swazi | úm-akhlélwane. (various references) | |
Swedish | nästa (neighbour, next, nighbour, other, tack, the next), grannsa till (neighbour), granne (neighbour), grann- (neighbour). (various references) | |
Thai | ใกล้เคียง (nearby, neighbour), เพื่อนบ้าน (neighbour). (various references) | |
Turkish | yanında olmak (accompany, flank, neighbour, stand by, stand to), komşu olmak (neighbour), komşu (adjacent, contiguous, flanking, Jones, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door, vicinal), bitişik olmak (abut, adjoin, be touching, border, neighbour, touch), bitişik (adjacent, adjoined, adjoining, attached, close, conjunct, connate, connected, contiguous, juxtaposed to, near, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next door). (various references) | |
Turkmen | goсюy-golan, goсюy (neighboring). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | сусідка (neighbour), сусідній (adjacent, adjoining, near, nearby, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring, next, next door, surrounding), сусід (bor, neighbour), суміжний (abutting, adjacent, adjoining, communicating, conterminal, contiguous, neighboring, neighbour, neighbouring), найближчий (immediate, nearest, neighbour, next, next door, proximate), близький (agnate, akin, allied, approximate, congenial, contiguous, familiar, intimate, near, nearby, neighbour, nigh), ближній (neighbour). (various references) | |
Welsh | cymydog, cymdoges. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | accola, accolae, adfines, adfinis, proximi, proximis, proximo, proximorum, proximos, proximum, proximus, vicina, vicini, vicinis, vicino, vicinos, vicinum, vicinus. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 5 |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Homo qui blandis fictisque sermonibus loquitur amico suo rete expandit gressibus eius |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | The man that with flateryng and feyned wrdis spekith to his frend; a net spredith to his goingis. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | A man that flattereth his neighbor spreadeth a net for his feet. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps. |
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| Language | Proverbs Chapter 29, Verse 5 |
| Cebuano | ¶ Ang tawo nga nagaulo-ulo sa iyang isigkatawo. Nagabuklad ug usa ka pukot sa iyang mga lakang. |
| Croatian | Èovjek koji laska bližnjemu svome razapinje mrežu stopama njegovim. |
| Danish | Mand, der smigrer sin Næste, breder et Net for hans Fod. |
| Dutch | Een man, die zijn naaste vleit, spreidt een net uit voor deszelfs gangen. |
| Finnish | Mies, joka lähimmäistään liehakoitsee, virittää verkon hänen askeleilleen. |
| French | Un homme qui flatte son prochain Tend un filet sous ses pas. |
| German | Wer mit seinem Nächsten heuchelt, der breitet ein Netz aus für seine Tritte. |
| Haitian Creole | ¶ Moun k'ap flate moun, se yon pèlen y'ap pare sou wout yo. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Siapa menyanjung sesamanya, memasang jerat untuk dirinya. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Orang yang mengangkat-angkat temannya, ia itu membentangkan jaring di hadapan kakinya. |
| Italian | L'uomo che adula il suo prossimo gli tende una rete per i suoi passi. |
| Maori | ¶ Ko te tangata e whakapati ana ki tona hoa, e whakatakoto kupenga ana mo ona waewae. |
| Norwegian | En mann som smigrer for sin næste, setter op et garn for hans fot. |
| Rumanian | Cine linguwewte pe aproapele squ, ki kntinde un lay supt pawii lui. - |
| Russian | юЕМПЧЕЛ, МШУФСЭЙК ДТХЗХ УЧПЕНХ, ТБУУФЙМБЕФ УЕФШ ОПЗБН ЕЗП. |
| Swedish | Den man som smickrar sin nästa han breder ut ett nät för han fötter. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "neighbor": neighbored, neighborhood, neighborhoods, neighboring, neighborliness, neighborlinesses, neighborly, neighbors. (additional references) | |
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"Neighbor" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: naibor, neigbor, neighboor, neighbr, neighebor, neihbor, nieghbor. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "neighbor" (pronounced nā"ber) |
| 3 | -ā" b er | belabor, labor, labour, saber, sabre, taber, Tabor. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "b-e-g-h-i-n-o-r" | |
-1 letter: bighorn. | |
-2 letters: binger, biogen, bonier, boring, eringo, gorhen, heroin, hinger, hoeing, ignore, nigher, orbing, region, robing. | |
-3 letters: begin, being, binge, bingo, bogie, boing, boner, borne, brine, bring, genro, giber, giron, goner, groin, heron, hinge, honer, irone, neigh, ohing, reign, renig, rhino, robin. | |
-4 letters: berg, bier, bine, bone, bong, bore, born, bren, brie, brig, brin. | |
| Words containing the letters "b-e-g-h-i-n-o-r" | |
+1 letter: bothering, neighbors, neighbour. | |
+2 letters: bethorning, betrothing, brothering, neighbored, neighborly, neighbours. | |
+3 letters: bescorching, beshrouding, herringbone, negrophobia, neighboring, neighboured. | |
+4 letters: bronchogenic, chemisorbing, herringboned, herringbones, interborough, negrophobias, neighborhood, neighbouring, nonbreathing. | |
+5 letters: boardinghouse, herringboning, housebreaking, hyperbolizing, interboroughs, neighborhoods, overbleaching, overbreathing. | |
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