neighbour

== English == === Alternative forms === neighbor (US) neyghbour (archaic) naybor, naybour, neibor, neibour, neighbore, neighboure, neyghbor, neyghbore, neyghboure (obsolete) === Etymology === From Middle English neyghebour, neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, from Old English nēahġebūr (“neighbour”), from Proto-West Germanic *nāhwagabūrō, from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”, literally “near-dweller”), equivalent to nigh (“near”) +‎ bower (“farmer”). Cognate with Scots nichbour (“neighbour”), Saterland Frisian Noaber (“neighbour”), Dutch nabuur (“neighbour”), German Low German Naber (“neighbour”), German Nachbar (“neighbour”), Danish nabo (“neighbour”), Norwegian nabo (“neighbour”), Icelandic nábúi (“neighbour”), Finnish naapuri (“neighbour”), Estonian naaber (“neighbour”). Eclipsed non-native Middle English prome (“neighbour”), borrowed from Old French proeme, proime, proisme (“neighbour”) (<< Latin proximus (“nearest, next”). === Pronunciation === (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈneɪbə/ (General American) IPA(key): /ˈneɪbɚ/ Rhymes: -eɪbə(ɹ) Hyphenation: neigh‧bour === Noun === neighbour (plural neighbours) (British spelling) 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. 1660, Hugh Peters, The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters, reprinted 1807, 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? 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, 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, 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. One who is near in sympathy or confidence. (biblical) A fellow human being. 1982, Bible (NKJV), 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. Anything located directly adjacent to something else. ==== Synonyms ==== bydweller (Christian sense): fellow human being, fellow, fellow man ==== Antonyms ==== (antonym(s) of “biblical”): stranger, foreigner ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Translations ==== === Verb === neighbour (third-person singular simple present neighbours, present participle neighbouring, simple past and past participle neighboured) (British spelling) (transitive) To be adjacent to (intransitive, followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as. To associate intimately with; to be close to. ==== Usage notes ==== The verb meaning "to be adjacent to" is most frequently encountered in its participle form: neighbouring. ==== Translations ==== == Middle English == === Noun === neighbour alternative form of neyghebour