Neighbour
noun
Someone who lives very close to where you live, often in the next house or apartment.
I borrowed some milk from my neighbour because I ran out.
Often appears as...
- next-door neighbour
- noisy neighbour
noun
A person or thing that is next to or near another.
Canada is a neighbour to the United States.
Often appears as...
- neighbouring countries
- neighbour states
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Academic
noun
A country that is next to another country.
Australia has no land neighbours.
Often appears as...
- neighbour nations
- immediate neighbour
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Academic
verb
To be next to or near something.
The park neighbours a shopping mall.
Often appears as...
- neighbour each other
- neighbour it
noun
Someone who lives very close to where you live, often in the next house or apartment.
I borrowed some milk from my neighbour because I ran out.
Often appears as...
- next-door neighbour
- noisy neighbour
noun
A person or thing that is next to or near another.
Canada is a neighbour to the United States.
Often appears as...
- neighbouring countries
- neighbour states
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A country that is next to another country.
Australia has no land neighbours.
Often appears as...
- neighbour nations
- immediate neighbour
Usage tips
Academic
verb
To be next to or near something.
The park neighbours a shopping mall.
Often appears as...
- neighbour each other
- neighbour it
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/3Proximity Implied
Implies the person lives within a short distance, often directly adjacent to your home.
My neighbour always says hello when we see each other.
Pro Tip 2/3Community Connection
Suggests a potential social relationship beyond mere physical closeness.
Our neighbours get together for a block party every year.
Pro Tip 3/3Familiar Phrasing
'Next-door neighbour' is commonly used to specify the person living in immediately adjacent residence.
My next-door neighbour has two friendly dogs.
Pro Tip 1/3Proximity Implied
Implies the person lives within a short distance, often directly adjacent to your home.
My neighbour always says hello when we see each other.
Pro Tip 2/3Community Connection
Suggests a potential social relationship beyond mere physical closeness.
Our neighbours get together for a block party every year.
Pro Tip 3/3Familiar Phrasing
'Next-door neighbour' is commonly used to specify the person living in immediately adjacent residence.
My next-door neighbour has two friendly dogs.
Pro Tip 1/3Proximity Implied
Implies the person lives within a short distance, often directly adjacent to your home.
My neighbour always says hello when we see each other.
Pro Tip 2/3Community Connection
Suggests a potential social relationship beyond mere physical closeness.
Our neighbours get together for a block party every year.
Pro Tip 3/3Familiar Phrasing
'Next-door neighbour' is commonly used to specify the person living in immediately adjacent residence.
My next-door neighbour has two friendly dogs.
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precisely so Ani's heart doesn't betray him by recalling the time he listened to his neighbors fight or washed his feet in the Nile. Now, it's Ani's moment of truth, the weighing of the heart. If his heart is heavier than the feather, weighed down by Ani's wrongdoings,
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Does Earth Have a Twin?...
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These calls announce the start of a raid into land controlled by their neighbours.
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Cell vs. virus: A battle...
a thick flexible layer made of fats and proteins, that surrounds and protects the inner components. It's semipermeable, meaning that it lets some thing pass in and out but blocks others. The cell membrane is covered with tiny projections. They all have functions, like helping cells adhere to their neighbors
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The Egyptian Book of the...
precisely so Ani's heart doesn't betray him by recalling the time he listened to his neighbors fight or washed his feet in the Nile. Now, it's Ani's moment of truth, the weighing of the heart. If his heart is heavier than the feather, weighed down by Ani's wrongdoings,
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Can plants talk to each...
These advance warnings increase the plants chance of survival. Bean plants also eavesdrop on each other's health through these fungal conduits. An aphid investation in one plant triggers its neighbor to ramp up production of compounds that repel aphids
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believe they look a little bit different this is the earth our home planet and its nearest neighbor Mars the earth is a lush oasis in comparison to Mars and this is because we enjoy the luxury of life's most precious commodity water
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Does Earth Have a Twin?...
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
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Joseph Butler
English Clergyman
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
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Jimmy Carter
American President
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
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Jean-Michel Jarre
French Musician
We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.
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Samuel Smiles
Scottish Author
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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Jez Butterworth
English Dramatist
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
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Minna Antrim
American Writer
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
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Markwayne Mullin
American Politician
Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.
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Eric Hoffer
American Writer
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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Jiddu Krishnamurti
Indian Philosopher
It is really very important while you are young to live in an environment in which there is no fear. Most of us, as we grow older, become frightened; we are afraid of living, afraid of losing a job, afraid of tradition, afraid of what the neighbours, or what the wife or husband would say, afraid of death.
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Joseph Butler
English Clergyman
Love of our neighbour, then, has just the same respect to, is no more distant from, self-love, than hatred of our neighbour, or than love or hatred of anything else.
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Jimmy Carter
American President
My constant prayer, my number one foreign goal, is to bring peace to Israel. And in the process to Israel's neighbours.
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Maya Angelou
American Poet
It's very important to know the neighbor next door and the people down the street and the people in another race.
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Jean-Michel Jarre
French Musician
We all think we are connected to the world now, but we are not talking to our neighbours any more.
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Samuel Smiles
Scottish Author
The duty of helping one's self in the highest sense involves the helping of one's neighbors.
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Jez Butterworth
English Dramatist
I don't think that writers have any responsibility to be good neighbors to the audience.
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Minna Antrim
American Writer
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
Quote examples
Markwayne Mullin
American Politician
Oklahoma has a respect for our neighbors. That's the Oklahoma standard.
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Eric Hoffer
American Writer
It is easier to love humanity as a whole than to love one's neighbor.
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