neighbour

Meanings

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.
• One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
• A fellow human being.

Verb

• To be adjacent to
• To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
• To associate intimately with; to be close to.

Related

Similar words

• bydweller
• fellow human being, fellow, fellow man

Opposite words

• stranger, foreigner

Origin

• From Middle English neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, from Old English nēahġebūr ("neighbour"), from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô ("neighbour"), equivalent to nigh + bower. Cognate with Scots nichbour ("neighbour"), Saterland Frisian Noaber ("neighbour"), Dutch nabuur ("neighbour"), German Low German Navur ("neighbour"), German Nachbar ("neighbour"), Danish nabo ("neighbour"), Norwegian nabo ("neighbour"), Icelandic nábúi ("neighbour"). More at nigh, bower.