'neighbour' definitions:
Definition of 'neighbour'
From: WordNet
noun
A person who lives (or is located) near another [syn: neighbor, neighbour]
noun
A nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?" [syn: neighbor, neighbour]
verb
Live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house" [syn: neighbor, neighbour]
verb
Be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India" [syn: neighbor, neighbour]
Definition of 'neighbour'
From: GCIDE
- Neighbor \Neigh"bor\ (n[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [OE. neighebour, AS. ne['a]hgeb[=u]r; ne['a]h nigh + geb[=u]r a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. n[=a]hgib[=u]r. See Nigh, and Boor.] [Spelt also neighbour.]
- 1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
- Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence. [1913 Webster]
- Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being. [1913 Webster]
- Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? --Luke x. 36. [1913 Webster]
- The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. --South. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'neighbour'
From: GCIDE
- neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\, neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\ Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [Chiefly Brit.] [PJC]