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neighbour noun [ ˈneɪbə ]

• a person living next door to or very near to the speaker or person referred to.
• "our garden was the envy of the neighbours"

neighbour verb

• (of a place or object) be situated next to or very near (another).
• "the square neighbours the old quarter of the town"
Similar: adjacent, nearest, closest, next-door, next, adjoining, bordering, connecting, abutting, contiguous, proximate, nearby, near, very near, close/near at hand, not far away, in the vicinity, in close proximity, surrounding, conjoining, approximate, vicinal,
Opposite: distant, remote, faraway,
Origin: Old English nēahgebūr, from nēah ‘nigh, near’ + gebūr ‘inhabitant, peasant, farmer’ (compare with boor).


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