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noun

Neighbor n. (Spelt also neighbour)

A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. "Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors."

One who is near in sympathy or confidence. "Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel."

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."

neighbour n. Same as neighbor. (Chiefly Brit.)

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Neighbour" Quotes from Famous Books

... abstinence from meat is part of his ethical code and his religion,—who would as soon think of taking his neighbour's purse as helping himself to a slice of beef,—is by nature a man of frugal habits and simple tastes. He prefers a plain diet, and knows that the purest enjoyment is to be found in fruits of all kinds as nature supplies ...

— New Vegetarian Dishes • Mrs. Bowdich

... own home, a park and a wooded hillside, that two years ago were carefully guarded even from a neighbour's foot, are now occupied by a large town of military huts, which can be seen for miles round. And fifteen miles away, in a historic "chase" where Catharine of Aragon lived while her trial was proceeding in a neighbouring ...

— The War on All Fronts: England's Effort - Letters to an American Friend • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... farms—purchase, mortgage, and sale, recorded rights, boundary lines, and road tax. It was in the middle of New Zealand, on the edge of the Wild horse plains, that I heard this talk last, when a man and his wife, twenty miles from the nearest neighbour, sat up half the night discussing just the same things that the men talked of in Main Street, ...

— Letters of Travel (1892-1913) • Rudyard Kipling

... of the room gave way, and though he succeeded in springing through the window, he missed the feather bed, and broke his leg in the fall. He was picked up by Chowles and Judith, and placed upon the bed in a state of insensibility, and was soon afterwards conveyed with his family to the house of a neighbour. ...

— Old Saint Paul's - A Tale of the Plague and the Fire • William Harrison Ainsworth

... thy neighbour have world at will, And thou far'st not so well as he, Be not so mad to think him ill, wish. (?) For his wealth envious to be: The king of heaven himself can see Who takes his sonde,[50] great or small; Thus each man in his degree, I rede thanke ...

— England's Antiphon • George MacDonald

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