neighbor
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- noun
- /ˈneɪbər/
- US
:
vecino
- I borrowed some sugar from my neighbor who lives across the street.
- friends and neighbors
- nearest neighbor
- families and neighbors
I can hear my neighbors going into the hallway.
- I can hear my neighbors going into the hallway.
- They're people I grew up with, you know, my neighbors, my family.
- But anyway, that person, that problem neighbor died.
- It it forces them into my neighbor's yard underground.
- And I look down into my neighbour's yard below me.
- He's the grumpy neighbor and he doesn't like noise.
- He says no, these are neighbors, friends and family.
- But, well, some of our neighbors don't want to be friends.
- So don't kill your neighbor is a regulation, right?
- According to Bree, her boyfriend's neighbor was hitting on him.
Examples
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The neighbors have got together and bought your friend a robe.
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We lived within sight and sound of neighbors who had children with whom we played.
Fiction book (1990) -
Love, love your neighbor, love one another.
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You are going to experience the high of helping a neighbor in need.
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You should be doing that and loving your neighbor as yourself.
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India has been at war with two of its neighbors in recent decades.
Academic text (2011) -
I'm one of the neighbors.
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I heard the story first from another neighbor and later, in more detail, from Elka herself.
Fiction book (1990) -
What good is money if your neighbor can't thrive?
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Both he and his sister Gloria had to rely on neighbors and family members who took them in.
Academic text (2011)
Compounds
A two-player card game where each player tries to win all the other player's cards
- Literature
A plan by one country to help itself by hurting other countries' trade
- Literature
A plan to help one country by hurting other countries' trade
How Local
Surface Forms
Etymology
Neighbor comes from old words that mean near and dweller, so it originally meant a 'near-dweller' who lives close by. That's why a neighbor is a person, place, or thing that is next to another.