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neighbor

Syllables: neigh·bor/ˈneɪ.bɚ/

neighbor is the US standard spelling 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

Proper noun capitalized: Neighbor

Neighbor (plural Neighbors)

  1. A surname from Middle English.

Forms of neighbor

Noun
pluralneighbors
Verb
third-person singular presentneighbors
present participleneighboring
past participleneighbored
pastneighbored
Proper noun
pluralNeighbors

Origin of neighbor

From Middle English neyghebour (“neighbour”).

Words formed from neighbor

Phrases with neighbor

Questions about neighbor

What does neighbor mean?
Neighbor means a surname from Middle English.
What is neighbor the US standard spelling of?
Neighbor is the US standard spelling of neighbour.
What part of speech is neighbor?
Neighbor is a proper noun.
How do you pronounce neighbor?
Neighbor is pronounced /ˈneɪ.bɚ/ (US).

Words near neighbor in the dictionary

  1. Neigers
  2. neigh
  3. neighba
  4. neighbas
  5. neighboorhood
  6. neighbor
  7. neighbor to the north
  8. neighbor tone
  9. neighbor tones
  10. neighbore
  11. neighbored

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