Word forms: neighborsregional note: in BRIT, use neighbour
1. countable noun
Your neighbor is someone who lives near you.
My neighbor spies on me through a crack in the fence.
2. countable noun
You can refer to the person who is standing or sitting next to you as your neighbor.
The woman prodded her neighbor and whispered urgently in his ear.
3. countable noun
You can refer to something which stands next to something else of the same kind as its neighbor.
...its big oil-rich neighbor.
neighbor in American English
(ˈneɪbər)
noun
1.
a person who lives near another
2.
a person, country, or thing situated near another
3.
a fellow human being
love thy neighbor
4.
any person
used as a term of direct address
adjective
5.
nearby; adjacent
verb transitive
6.
to live or be situated near (someone or something)
7. Rare
to bring near or into close association with
verb intransitive
8.
to live or be situated nearby
9.
to have friendly relations; associate on friendly terms (with)
Brit. sp. neighbour
Word origin
ME neighbour < OE neahgebur (akin to Ger nachbar) < neah (see nigh) + gebur, freeholder, peasant < ge-, with + bur, farmer < buan, to live, cultivate, akin to ON bua: see bondage
Examples of 'neighbor' in a sentence
neighbor
The neighbor, Maggie Forrest, was involved in a television discussion about domestic violence.
Peter Robinson AFTERMATH (2001)
It was something for which he could never forgive them, -especially the lehen auzo, the'first neighbor '.
Mark Mills AMAGANSETT (2001)
The presence of a neighbor 's pickup wasn't particularly unusual.