Neighbor
['neɪbə] or ['nebɚ]
Definition
(noun.) a nearby object of the same kind; 'Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas'; 'what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?'.
(noun.) a person who lives (or is located) near another.
(verb.) be located near or adjacent to; 'Pakistan neighbors India'.
(verb.) live or be located as a neighbor; 'the neighboring house'.
Typist: Marvin--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.
(n.) One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
(n.) One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.
(a.) Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring.
(v. t.) To adjoin; to border on; tobe near to.
(v. t.) To associate intimately with.
(v. i.) To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near.
Checked by Kenneth
Unserious Contents or Definition
To see your neighbors in your dreams, denotes many profitable hours will be lost in useless strife and gossip. If they appear sad, or angry, it foretells dissensions and quarrels.
Checker: Newman
Unserious Contents or Definition
n. One whom we are commanded to love as ourselves and who does all he knows how to make us disobedient.
Editor: Stephen
Unserious Contents or Definition
One who knows more about your affairs than yourself.
Typist: Rachel
Examples
- Nothing but beggar my neighbor, miss. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- For note that Jesus did not set up some external fetich: he did not say, make your neighbor righteous, or chaste, or respectable. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Hannah is faithfulness itself, and our good neighbor will guard you as if you were his own. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Cousin Raymond, observed another lady, we are to love our neighbor. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mortals are easily tempted to pinch the life out of their neighbor's buzzing glory, and think that such killing is no murder. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Each man sought his neighbor's eye, but found in it no ray of hope, no encouragement. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I had been a neighbor of Bowen's in Missouri, and knew him well and favorably before the war; but his request was refused. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The practice is quiet, said I, and I have an accommodating neighbor. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- The non-slaveholders would have left the country, and the small slaveholder must have sold out to his more fortunate neighbor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the whole, one might say that an ardent charity was at work setting the virtuous mind to make a neighbor unhappy for her good. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He is a neighbor. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- No surface can be made perfectly smooth, and when a barrel rolls over an incline, or a rope passes over a pulley, or a cogwheel turns its neighbor, there is rubbing and slipping and sliding. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I do my neighbor's when he goes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- He said that his wife accused him of marked discourtesy, but that, after the call of his neighbor, he had felt restless until I got away. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- He was the son of Dr. Bailey, our nearest and most intimate neighbor. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- The americans have no troublesome Neighbors, they are without foreign Possessions, and do not want the alliance of any Nation, for this Reason they have nothing to do with foreign Politics. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Lydgate's odious humors and their neighbors' apparent avoidance of them had an unaccountable date for her in their relief from money difficulties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Punic faith with Punic neighbors, retorted Justinian as they paused at the gate. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Fred surprised his neighbors in various ways. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- We are not strangers, we are neighbors, and you needn't think you'd be a bother. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We haven't been here a great while, you know, but we have got acquainted with all our neighbors but you. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- People glorify all sorts of bravery except the bravery they might show on behalf of their nearest neighbors. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- But how little we know what would make paradise for our neighbors! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- For sixteen years he had to resist the reproaches of wife and children, and the threats of neighbors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The reproduction of an old lithograph depicting this scene indicates the interest of the neighbors in this event. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- I feel as if there had been an earthquake, said Jo, as their neighbors went home to breakfast, leaving them to rest and refresh themselves. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Hence these fair neighbors thought her either proud or eccentric, and sometimes spoke of her to their husbands as your fine Mrs. Garth. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The Wrights’ home was in Dayton, Ohio, and there they had spent their boyhood, in no way distinguished from their neighbors. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Ah, it bolted, and was cared for by one of your neighbors. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- I can be well recommended by all the neighbors, and I hope I can be industrious and patient, and teach myself while I teach others. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
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