neighbour
Pronunciation
  • (RP) IPA: /ˈneɪbə/
  • (America) IPA: /ˈneɪbɚ/
Noun

neighbour (plural neighbours) (British spelling)

  1. 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.
    My neighbour has two noisy cats.
    They′re our neighbours across the street.
    • 1660, Hugh Peters, The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters, reprinted 1807, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=85dCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA10&dq=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22+-intitle:%22neighbour|neighbours%22+-inauthor:%22neighbour%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4UW-T_nxAsPFmAXYjfFE&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22%20-intitle%3A%22neighbour|neighbours%22%20-inauthor%3A%22neighbour%22&f=false page 10],
      Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a neighbour by him, and being somewhat merily disposed, quoth he Oh neighbour, did you not see what a wind there was the other day?
    • 1913, Edith Wharton, The Custom of the Country, 2010, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=SgRD_Ltj4EEC&pg=PT72&dq=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22+-intitle:%22neighbour|neighbours%22+-inauthor:%22neighbour%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HlO-T_XAKu6ZiQfh8MXTDw&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22%20-intitle%3A%22neighbour|neighbours%22%20-inauthor%3A%22neighbour%22&f=false unnumbered page],
      Undine at length shrank back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent down and picked it up.
    • 1973, Ernest Buckler, Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=VxV6AAAAMAAJ&q=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22+-intitle:%22neighbour|neighbours%22+-inauthor:%22neighbour%22&dq=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22+-intitle:%22neighbour|neighbours%22+-inauthor:%22neighbour%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4UW-T_nxAsPFmAXYjfFE&redir_esc=y page 126],
      Neighbours enact their substantive noun when there′s a neighbour′s sickness in the night; as friends do theirs, the cindered and the green times through.
    • 2009, D. Staufer, Classical Percolation, Asok K. Sen, Kamal K. Bardhan, Bikas K. Chakrabarti (editors), Quantum and Semi-Classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids, Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 762, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=ptpcJs0_IM0C&pg=PA4&dq=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22+-intitle:%22neighbour|neighbours%22+-inauthor:%22neighbour%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4UW-T_nxAsPFmAXYjfFE&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22%20-intitle%3A%22neighbour|neighbours%22%20-inauthor%3A%22neighbour%22&f=false page 4],
      Then a cluster is grown by letting each empty neighbour of an already occupied cluster site decide once and for all, whether it is occupied or empty. One needs to keep and to update a perimeter list of empty neighbours.
    • 2011, Richard Jensen, Chris Cornelis, "Fuzzy-Rough Nearest Neighbour Classification", James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron (editors-in-chief), Transactions on Rough Sets XIII, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computing Science 6499, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=JWunswcHc-YC&pg=PA56&dq=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22+-intitle:%22neighbour|neighbours%22+-inauthor:%22neighbour%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=4UW-T_nxAsPFmAXYjfFE&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22neighbour%22|%22neighbours%22%20-intitle%3A%22neighbour|neighbours%22%20-inauthor%3A%22neighbour%22&f=false page 56],
      By contrast to the latter, our method uses the nearest neighbours to construct lower and upper approximations of decision classes, and classifies test instances based on their membership to these approximations.
  2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
    • c. 1593, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act IV, scene ii]:
      Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.
  3. (biblical) A fellow human being.
    • 1982, New King James Version, Leviticus 19:18,
      You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.
Synonyms Antonyms Translations Translations Verb

neighbour (neighbours, present participle neighbouring; past and past participle neighboured) (British spelling)

  1. (transitive) To be adjacent to
    Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
    • leisurely ascending hills that neighbour the shore
  2. (intransitive, followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
    That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
  3. To associate intimately with; to be close to.
Translations
  • Portuguese: vizinhar com
  • Russian: соседствовать



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