Neighbour

Quick meaning: Neighbour is a noun meaning One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

Meaning

One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

More Meanings

1. (biblical) A fellow human being.
2. Anything located directly adjacent to something else.
3. (transitive) To be adjacent to
4. (intransitive, followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
5. To associate intimately with; to be close to.
6. 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.

Example Sentences

My neighbour has two noisy cats.

They′re our neighbours across the street.

Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.

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.

Word Forms

• neighbours
• neighbor
• neibor
• neibour
• neighbore
• neighboure
• neighbouring
• neighboured

Synonyms for neighbour

Depending on context, synonyms include bydweller, fellow, close, near, neighboring, neighbor.

Antonyms for neighbour

Common opposites include stranger, foreigner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include neighboring, neighbor, near, close, neighborhood, neighbourliness.

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