noun · verb · 11 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot
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Received-Pronunciation:/ˈneɪbə/
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General-American:/ˈneɪbɚ/
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rhymes with -eɪbə(ɹ)
CMU ARPABET:N EY1 B ER0
Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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noun
Meaning 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.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Examples
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, 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.
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noun
Meaning 2
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 3
A fellow human being.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Topics: biblical, lifestyle, religion
Examples
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.
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noun
Meaning 4
Anything located directly adjacent to something else.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
Examples
The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.
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verb
Meaning 5
To be adjacent to
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, transitive
Examples
Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
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verb
Meaning 6
To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK, figuratively, intransitive
Examples
That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
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verb
Meaning 7
To associate intimately with; to be close to.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: UK
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noun
Meaning 8
a nearby object of the same kind
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas
what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?
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Synonyms: neighbor
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: object, physical object
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noun
Meaning 9
a person who lives (or is located) near another
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
