Neighbor
Neighbor (nā"bẽr) , noun
[Old English neighebour, Anglo-Saxon neáhgebūr; neáh nigh + gebūr a dweller, farmer; akin to Dutch nabuur, German nachbar, Old High German nāhgibūr. See Nigh, and Boor.]
1.
A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. — Chaucer
Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors.
2.
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
Buckingham
No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel.
3.
One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves?
The gospel allows no such term as “stranger;” makes every man my neighbor.
Neighbor , adjective
Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.
The neighbor cities.
The neighbor room.
neighbor , transitive verb
1.
To adjoin; to border on; to be near to.
Leisurely ascending hills that neighbor the shore.
2.
To associate intimately with. [Obsolete] — Shakespeare
Neighbor , intransitive verb
To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near. [Obsolete]
A copse that neighbors by.