neyghbour
neyghbour is the archaic form of neighbour.
Meaning of neighbour
Noun
neighbour (plural neighbours)
- 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.
- 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...
- 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
- 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.
Forms of neyghbour
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | neyghbours |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | neyghbours |
| present participle | neyghbouring |
| past participle | neyghboured |
| past | neyghboured |
Questions about neyghbour
- What is neyghbour the archaic form of?
- Neyghbour is the archaic form of neighbour.
Words near neyghbour in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: neyghbour (page history and authors); neighbour (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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