neighbour
Plural: neighbours
Noun
- a person who lives (or is located) near another
- a nearby object of the same kind
- 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.
- Anything located directly adjacent to something else.
Verb
- live or be located as a neighbor
- be located near or adjacent to
- To be adjacent to
- To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
- To associate intimately with; to be close to.
Examples
- That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
- The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.
- Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English neyghebour, neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, from Old English nēahġebūr (“neighbour”), from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”, literally “near-dweller”), equivalent to nigh (“near”) + bower (“farmer”). Cognate with Scots nichbour (“neighbour”), Saterland Frisian Noaber (“neighbour”), Dutch nabuur (“neighbour”), German Low German Naber (“neighbour”), German Nachbar (“neighbour”), Danish nabo (“neighbour”), Norwegian nabo (“neighbour”), Icelandic nábúi (“neighbour”), Finnish naapuri (“neighbour”), Estonian naaber (“neighbour”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English prome (“neighbour”), borrowed from Old French proeme, proime, proisme (“neighbour”).
Scrabble Score: 15
neighbour: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordneighbour: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
neighbour: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary