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neibour

neibour is the obsolete form of neighbour.

Meaning of neighbour

Noun

neighbour (plural neighbours)

  1. (UK) 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.
    • My neighbour has two noisy cats.
  2. (UK) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
    • Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.c. 1593 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedy of Richard the Third: […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and...
  3. (UK) A fellow human being.
    • 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.1982, Bible (NKJV), Leviticus 19:18
  4. (UK) Anything located directly adjacent to something else.
    • The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.

See all 7 meanings of neighbour

Forms of neibour

pluralneibours

Questions about neibour

What is neibour the obsolete form of?
Neibour is the obsolete form of neighbour.

Words near neibour in the dictionary

  1. Nei-huang
  2. Nei-meng-ku
  3. Neibauer
  4. neibor
  5. neibors
  6. neibour
  7. neibours
  8. neice
  9. Neices
  10. neide
  11. Neiden

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