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Princeton's WordNet

  1. neighbor, neighbournoun

    a person who lives (or is located) near another

  2. neighbor, neighbourverb

    a nearby object of the same kind

    "Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas"; "what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?"

  3. neighbor, neighbourverb

    live or be located as a neighbor

    "the neighboring house"

  4. neighbor, neighbourverb

    be located near or adjacent to

    "Pakistan neighbors India"

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  1. neighbor

    A neighbor is an individual or entity that is located near or next to another. This term can be used to describe people living in proximity in a residential area, countries sharing a border, or even elements positioned next to each other in a data array or on a graph. The concept of a neighbor also implies a certain level of interaction, cooperation or connection between adjacent entities. In a broader, ethical or social context, it may refer to fellow beings with whom one shares common resources or environment.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Neighbornoun

    a person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off

  2. Neighbornoun

    one who is near in sympathy or confidence

  3. Neighbornoun

    one entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being

  4. Neighboradjective

    near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring

  5. neighborverb

    to adjoin; to border on; tobe near to

  6. neighborverb

    to associate intimately with

  7. Neighborverb

    to dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near

  8. Etymology: [OE. neighebour, AS. nehgebr; neh nigh + gebr a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. nhgibr. See Nigh, and Boor.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. neighbor

    The man who knows more about you than you know about yourself.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. NEIGHBOR

    One who knows more about your affairs than yourself.

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. NEIGHBOR

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Neighbor is ranked #38754 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Neighbor surname appeared 570 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Neighbor.

    95.9% or 547 total occurrences were White.
    2.1% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    1.4% or 8 total occurrences were Black.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of neighbor in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of neighbor in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of neighbor in a Sentence

  1. Rupert Brooke:

    A book may be compared to your neighbor: if it be good, it cannot last too long; if bad, you cannot get rid of it too early.

  2. Matthew Arnold:

    With close-lipped Patience for our only friend, Sad Patience, too near neighbor to Despair.

  3. President Biden:

    Remember their sacrifice, their valor and their grace. Remember their smiles, their loves, their laughter, their essential vibrant and transcendent humanity, for while we stand amid monuments of stone, we must never forget that each of these markers, for those known and unknown, here at Arlington and far beyond, represent a precious life. A son, a daughter, a mother, a spouse, brother, a sister, a friend, a neighbor.

  4. Bart Barber:

    If we fail to apply the teachings of our faith to questions like immigration or Herschel Walker’s behavior or Donald Trump’s behavior in the way that Kamala Harris thinks we should, we wind up being scolded and encouraged to let our faith shape our moral and political decisions more aggressively, but when it comes to questions like abortion, Kamala Harris is willing to offer instruction about how we should divorce our faith from our moral and political decisions. I choose to let the teachings of Jesus instruct me about how to apply my faith. I show respect for our Vice-President by praying for Kamala Harris and by loving Kamala Harris as my neighbor, and I show respect for the fellow human beings waiting for their chance to be born by opposing their slaughter in the abortionist’s chamber.

  5. Carole Baskin:

    I was so impressed with the deputy that showed up on the scene because Carole Baskin did exactly the right thing. And he showed amazing restraint in not shooting that tiger, he kept eye contact. He backed away slowly. A tiger, if you look down, if you turn, if that neighbor had run back to his door, that triggers their instinct to kill.

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