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neighbourneigh‧bour British English, neighbor American English /ˈneɪbə $ -bər/ ●●● S2 W2 noun [countable] neighborOrigin: Old English neahgebur - And when they have cleared go round to see some neighbour.
- Each standing stone collects the raw power and channels it to its inward neighbour.
- One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour, who insists I pay for the call.
- She won a beauty competition in her local newspaper in 1981 after being nominated by a neighbour.
- This shadowing phenomenon can be used to determine nearest neighbour interatomic distances in surfaces.
► next-door neighbours Our next-door neighbours (=the people who live in the house next to us) say they’ll look after our cat for us while we’re away. ADJECTIVE► close· Tau Ceti is a close neighbour, at a distance of only 12 light-years.· His father happens to be a close neighbour of mine in the village of Comerford, that's all.· In it, the feral mink often finds itself to be a close neighbour to vulnerable domestic stock.· He could hardly adapt the style of the building's closest neighbour, the Soviet-like Novotel Hotel.· As a close friend and neighbour of the elderly painter, Osterlind used to visit Renoir every day. ► good· Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour.· I have to rely on the kindness of a good neighbour to hang out my washing.· When the elders at our place began to fall ill, Mrs Thwaites was the best neighbour we could have. ► near· A fellow farmer and near neighbour in Duns, Ian was an enthusiastic amateur racing driver.· A near neighbour was recruited as a support worker and she too began to become involved in the family arguments.· The library of course was gutted, but Walker Books, a near neighbour of the school, is coming to the rescue.· The nearest neighbour, a farmer well into his seventies, was more than five miles and a range of low hills away.· Charlton Heston lived on the other side and Warren Beatty was also a near neighbour.· Does your nearest neighbour have a higher profile in the area?· For example, development of spatial retrieval techniques and nearest neighbour analyses which can operate with fuzzy data. NOUN► door· It was their next door neighbour, the woman with the red hair.· A next door neighbour stepped in to help by lending his car to get her family to Chelmsford station, she said.· Fortunately my next door neighbour came round to tell me to stay indoors. VERB► ask· Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival.· Lock any shed, garage or outhouse. Ask a neighbour to keep an eye on your house.· A man came into her house asking after a neighbour and then for a glass of water. ► love· A New commandment I give unto you, you are to love your neighbour as yourself.· And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.· We are required to love one another, love our neighbour and to love our marriage partner. ► next-door neighbour- Could some one tell my next-door neighbour, Mrs Timms?
- For the past year, she has suffered from incontinence, but her kind next-door neighbour has done regular washing for her.
- He could be the next-door neighbour, a friend, a blood relation.
- Her next-door neighbour, Philippa, was sitting on the draining-board kicking her legs up and down.
- I haven't had any trouble with him personally, but my next-door neighbour has.
- It's a compliment, by the way: Philippa is my next-door neighbour and startlingly beautiful.
- Next time you chat with your next-door neighbour, you are relieved to find that you don't fancy him.
1someone who lives next to you or near you: One of the neighbors complained about the noise from the party. FBI agents were interviewing all their friends and neighbors. Our next-door neighbours (=the people who live in the house next to us) say they’ll look after our cat for us while we’re away.2a country that is next to another one → bordering: Israel and its Arab neighbours3someone or something that is next to another person or thing of the same type: The teacher saw Phil passing a note to his neighbour. The garden was divided from its neighbour by a high wall. |