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Plural of neighbour

regular plural

The plural of neighbour is neighbours.

Forms of neighbour

Singularneighbour /ˈneɪbə/
Pluralneighbours
Countablecountable

Neighbours in a sentence

  • They′re our neighbours across the street.
  • The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.
  • I need to keep in with the neighbours in case I ever need a favour from them.From the entry in
  • The neighbours got into an argument about the branches of the trees that extended over the fence.From the entry argument
  • I was hanging clothes in the garden and I overheard the neighbours talking about Sheila's pregnancy.From the entry overhear

Meaning of neighbour

  1. noun 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.
  2. noun One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
  3. noun A fellow human being.

Full definition of neighbour

Questions about the plural of neighbour

What is the plural of neighbour?
The plural of neighbour is neighbours.
Is neighbour countable?
Neighbour is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neighbour (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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