neighbor
from
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
neighbor
n 1: a person who lives (or is located) near another [syn:
{neighbor}, {neighbour}]
2: a nearby object of the same kind; "Fort Worth is a neighbor
of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?"
[syn: {neighbor}, {neighbour}]
v 1: live or be located as a neighbor; "the neighboring house"
[syn: {neighbor}, {neighbour}]
2: be located near or adjacent to; "Pakistan neighbors India"
[syn: {neighbor}, {neighbour}]
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Neighbor \Neigh"bor\ (n[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [OE. neighebour, AS.
ne['a]hgeb[=u]r; ne['a]h nigh + geb[=u]r a dweller, farmer;
akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. n[=a]hgib[=u]r. See
{Nigh}, and {Boor}.] [Spelt also {neighbour}.]
1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not
far off. --Chaucer.
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Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors.
--Shak.
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2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
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Buckingham
No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. --Shak.
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3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness;
hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
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Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was
neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
--Luke x. 36.
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The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes
every man my neighbor. --South.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "neighbor":
abut, abut on, abutter, acquaintance, adjacent, adjoin, adjoiner,
adjoining, advocate, alter ego, appose, backer, be contiguous,
be in contact, best friend, border, border on, borderer, bordering,
bosom friend, bring near, brother, butt, bystander,
casual acquaintance, close acquaintance, close friend, communicate,
confidant, confidante, conjoin, connect, connecting, conterminous,
contiguous, coterminous, end to end, endways, endwise,
face to face, familiar, favorer, fellow, fellow creature,
fellowman, friend, immediate, immediate neighbor,
inseparable friend, intimate, join, joined, juxtapose, juxtaposed,
juxtaposit, juxtapositional, juxtapositive, lie by, line,
looker-on, lover, march, neighborer, neighboring, next, onlooker,
other self, partisan, pickup, put with, repository, stand by,
supporter, sympathizer, tangent, touch, verge, verge upon,
well-wisher
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