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neighbourneighborn.adj. Forms: α. Old English neahgebur, Old English neahhebur, Old English nechebur, Old English nehchebur, Old English nehgibur, Old English nehhebur, Old English nyhgebur, Old English 1600s nehebur, Old English–early Middle English nehebor, Old English–early Middle English nehgebur, late Old English (in a late copy) early Middle English nehbur, early Middle English neahȝebur, early Middle English negebure, early Middle English neihebur, early Middle English nethtebure, Middle English necbour, Middle English negbor, Middle English neȝbore, Middle English neȝborwe, Middle English neȝbour, Middle English neȝbur, Middle English neȝebur, Middle English neȝȝebour, Middle English neghboer, Middle English neȝhbor, Middle English neghbourgh, Middle English neghbur, Middle English neghebor, Middle English neghebore, Middle English neghebur, Middle English neghtbor, Middle English neghtbour, Middle English neghtbur, Middle English neghtburgh, Middle English neghtebor, Middle English neghtebour, Middle English neghtebur, Middle English neȝpur, Middle English neȝtbore, Middle English neȝtboure, Middle English neȝybor, Middle English neȝyboure, Middle English nehebour, Middle English neieȝbor, Middle English neiȝbor, Middle English neiȝbore, Middle English neiȝborow, Middle English neiȝbour, Middle English neiȝebor, Middle English neiȝebore, Middle English neiȝebour, Middle English neighborgh, Middle English neighebor, Middle English neighebore, Middle English neighebour, Middle English neihbur, Middle English neihebor, Middle English neiheboure, Middle English neihȝebor, Middle English neihibur, Middle English newghpure, Middle English nextbur, Middle English nextbure, Middle English neygbore, Middle English neyȝborow, Middle English neyȝbour, Middle English neyȝbure, Middle English neyȝebour, Middle English neyggbour, Middle English neyȝhbar, Middle English neyghborn (transmission error), Middle English neyghborow, Middle English neyghbourhes (plural), Middle English neyghbur, Middle English neyȝhbur, Middle English neyghbure, Middle English neyghburgh, Middle English neyghburght, Middle English neyȝhburh, Middle English neyȝhburhg, Middle English neyghebor, Middle English neyghebour, Middle English neyghebur, Middle English neyghtbour, Middle English neyȝtheboure, Middle English neyhbore, Middle English neyhborowre (transmission error), Middle English neyhbur, Middle English neyhebour (transmission error), Middle English neyshchebowr, Middle English neytebour, Middle English neythebor, Middle English nyghebour, Middle English nyghtbur, Middle English nyȝtbur, Middle English nytheborgh, Middle English (1600s Irish English) (1900s– U.S. regional) neghbor, Middle English 1600s–1700s neighbur, Middle English–1500s neghbour, Middle English–1500s neighbore, Middle English–1500s neighburgh, Middle English–1500s neyghbor, Middle English–1500s neyghboure, Middle English–1500s neyghbowr, Middle English–1600s neyghbour, Middle English– neighbor (now U.S.), Middle English– neighbour, 1500s negboure, 1500s neighborwe, 1500s neighburd, 1500s neightbre, 1500s neygbour, 1500s neyghber, 1500s neyghtbor, 1500s nighboure, 1500s–1600s neighboure, 1500s–1600s nighbor, 1500s–1700s nieghbour, 1500s–1800s neigbour, 1600s neihbour, 1600s (1800s– regional) neighber; Scottish pre-1700 nechbor, pre-1700 nechbour, pre-1700 nechboure, pre-1700 nechbur, pre-1700 nechtbor, pre-1700 nechtbour, pre-1700 nechtbur, pre-1700 negbour, pre-1700 neghbour, pre-1700 neichbor, pre-1700 neichbour, pre-1700 neichbur, pre-1700 neichtbour, pre-1700 neigbor, pre-1700 nethbour, pre-1700 neychbour, pre-1700 neychtbour, pre-1700 neyctbur, pre-1700 neyghbor, pre-1700 neyhbour, pre-1700 nichbiar, pre-1700 nichbour, pre-1700 nichtber, pre-1700 nichtbor, pre-1700 nichtbour, pre-1700 nichtbovr, pre-1700 nichtbur, pre-1700 nichtbure, pre-1700 niechtbour, pre-1700 nieghbour, pre-1700 nieghtbor, pre-1700 nieghtbour, pre-1700 nighbor, pre-1700 nighboure, pre-1700 nighbur, pre-1700 nightbor, pre-1700 nightbour, pre-1700 nightbowr, pre-1700 nochtbour (transmission error), pre-1700 nychbor, pre-1700 nychbour, pre-1700 nychboure, pre-1700 nychbwr, pre-1700 nychtboor, pre-1700 nychtbor, pre-1700 nychtbour, pre-1700 nychtbowr, pre-1700 nychtbur, pre-1700 nychtbure, pre-1700 nychtpur, pre-1700 nyctbour, pre-1700 nyghbor, pre-1700 nyghbour, pre-1700 nyghtbor, pre-1700 nyghtbour, pre-1700 nyhbour, pre-1700 nyhtbur, pre-1700 nytboure, pre-1700 nythbor, pre-1700 1700s nighbour, pre-1700 1700s– neighbor, pre-1700 1700s– neighbour, pre-1700 (1900s– archaic) nychbur, 1900s– neeghbour, 1900s– niechbour. β. Middle English neburrow, Middle English neyborow, Middle English neyburwe, Middle English neyebore, Middle English neypur, Middle English nyebore (in a late copy), Middle English–1500s neybor, Middle English–1500s neybowre, Middle English–1500s neybur, Middle English–1600s neybour, 1500s nebowr, 1500s nebur, 1500s neiybur, 1500s neyburgh, 1500s–1600s neibor, 1500s–1600s neibour, 1600s naibor, 1600s neabor, 1600s niebour; English regional (northern and midlands) 1700s nebbour, 1700s– nebber, 1800s neibour, 1800s– naibor, 1800s– nayber, 1800s– nebbur, 1800s– neebur, 1800s– neibor, 1800s– nyber, 1900s– nabor, 1900s– niber, 1900s– nieber; Scottish pre-1700 naibor, pre-1700 nebor, pre-1700 nebour, pre-1700 nebovr, pre-1700 nebur, pre-1700 nedbour (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 neidbure (perhaps transmission error), pre-1700 nepor, pre-1700 neuburg, pre-1700 newbur, pre-1700 neyboir, pre-1700 neybor, pre-1700 neybour, pre-1700 nibor, pre-1700 nibur, pre-1700 nieber, pre-1700 nybor, pre-1700 nybour, pre-1700 nybur, pre-1700 nyebor, pre-1700 1700s nibour, pre-1700 1700s– neibor, pre-1700 1700s– neibour, 1700s nieper, 1700s niepor, 1700s nipour, 1700s–1800s neiper, 1700s– neebor, 1800s neebir, 1800s neepor, 1800s neepour, 1800s neiber, 1800s nei'bour, 1800s niber, 1800s– neeber, 1800s– neebour, 1800s– neeper, 1900s– naebor, 1900s– neebar, 1900s– neebur, 1900s– neipor, 1900s– neipour, 1900s– niebor; also Irish English 1600s nabour, 1600s naiber, 1900s– neebor (northern), 1900s– niber (northern), 1900s– nybour (northern). Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Middle Dutch nageboer , nagebuer , nagebuur , nagebuyer , nagebuyr , Middle Low German nāchgebūr , nāgebūr , Old High German nāhgibūr , nāhgibūro (Middle High German nāchgebūr , nāchgebūre ), and further with Middle Dutch nāber , nābuer , nābūr , nābuur , Old Saxon nābūr , nāhbūr (Middle Low German nāber , nābūr , nēber , etc., German regional (Low German) Naber ), Middle High German nāchbūr , nāchbūre , (German Nachbar ) < the Germanic base of nigh adj. + the Germanic base of boor n. Compare also Old Icelandic nábúi, Old Swedish nabōe, nabō (Swedish †nabo), early modern Danish naabo, nabo (Danish nabo). A. n. 1. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > neighbour the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [noun] > friend > as form of address eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory (Hatton) (1871) xliv. 322 Ne laða ðærto..ðine cuðan, ne ðine welegan neahgeburas. OE (Northumbrian) i. 65 Factus est timor super omnes uicinos eorum : aworden wæs ondo ofer alle neheburas hiora. OE Byrhtferð (Ashm.) (1995) iii. i. 122 Þonne nyme he his neahgebur þe him gehendost sy. OE tr. Vindicta Salvatoris (Cambr. Univ. Libr.) in J. E. Cross (1996) 285 Ealle hyre nehheburas, ægðer ge weras ge wyf, swyðe weopon. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine (1993) 62 Ða cwædon his neahȝeburæs: La, hu næs þæs þe blinde mon þe swa iboren wæs? a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 83 Hie gon to chirche..for to biregen nehebores speche. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 11143 To gaderi þuder god of neiȝebores aboute. a1382 4 Kings (Douce 369(1)) iv. 3 Aske by borwynge of alle thi neyȝbours. a1425 (Cambr.) (1968) 27 Ȝif pouerte kepe þin hows þou derst not..haue suspescion to þin neyȝebour þat þei wole breke þi walles & bere a wey þyn huches. 1488 (c1478) Hary (Adv.) (1968–9) v. l. 1012 With thaim thow was a nychtbour off this toun. a1500 in C. T. Martin Chancery Proc. 15th Cent. in (1904) 59 5 Your suppliaunt sent into London for his neighburghs, whiche took him to bayll. 1590 R. Harvey 10 It wil..set the next neighbors medowes all on a floate. 1650 T. Hubbert 137 Their tears..pierce the hearts of their pittying neighbors. 1700 J. Dryden To my Kinsman J. Driden in 93 Contending Neighbours come From your Award, to wait their final Doom. 1744 G. Berkeley (ESTC T72826) §72 I live in a remote corner, among poor neighbours. 1777 H. L. Piozzi Diary June in K. C. Balderston (1942) I. 9 Among the many Nieghbours we had. 1847 H. Miller xx. 395 Neighbours of a class that in Scotland would be on the most intimate terms. 1871 E. A. Freeman IV. xvii. 55 The Norman landowner held his lands on the same tenure..as his English neighbour. 1898 E. N. Westcott xxii. 201 What sort of feller was he..when he was somebody?..good citizen? good neighber?..kind to his fam'ly? 1937 R. K. Narayan xiv. 206 I don't subscribe for it but get it from a neighbour. 1986 B. Gilroy xiii. 63 Someone borrowed some smelling salts from a neighbour, six houses away. 2000 A. Karlen (2001) xxi. 143 In the summer she and her neighbors might pick a dozen ticks a day off their children and pets. society > society and the community > social relations > association, fellowship, or companionship > a companion or associate > [noun] ?c1335 in W. Heuser (1904) 116 (MED) Loue þi neiȝbore as þine owe bodi. c1390 G. Chaucer 515 In the name of thy neighebor thou shalt understonde the name of thy brother. a1425 (a1400) (Galba & Harl.) (1863) 5860 (MED) Yhit sal men yhelde acount..of ilka neghebur, Þat men fals to help and to socur. c1426 J. Audelay (1931) 8 Ȝif þou loue þi neȝtboure, Þen þou louyst þi Sauyoure. a1500 Ten Commandments (Harl.) in (1890) 85 46 Thow shalt not desyre thy neypurys fere. a1513 W. Dunbar Tabill of Confessioun in (1998) I. 271 Prising my self and euill my nychtburis demyng. 1570 T. Norton tr. A. Nowell f. 19 The name of Neighbour conteineth..also those whom we know not, yea and our enemies. 1611 Luke x. 27 Thou shalt loue..thy neighbour as thy self. View more context for this quotation a1650 D. Calderwood (1843) II. 25 To represse all appetite of our nighbour's hurt. 1726 Bp. J. Butler xi. 210 The..Rivalship is between Self-love, and the Love of our Neighbour. 1761 H. Walpole Let. 16 Apr. in (1941) II. 140 I shall irritate my neighbours (I don't mean those at next door, but in the scripture-sense of neighbour, anybody). 1841 R. C. Trench (1877) xvii. 328 Who is a neighbour, he who shows love, or he who shows it not? 1875 A. Porson Thay be not neighbours, sir. Thay be near-dwellers. 1958 J. K. Galbraith xx. 225 Churches have long featured the virtue of loving one's neighbour. 1985 B. Zephaniah 101 Thou shalt not steal from thy neighbour Still you, angels of beast..keep my guitar I got a new one. c1390 in F. J. Furnivall (1901) ii. 527 Bettre is a neiȝebore neiȝe Then a broþur fer fro þin eiȝe. a1500 (?c1450) xxiii. 434 Men seyn an olde sawe, who hath a goode neighbour hath goode morowe. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in ii. f. cccxlv Whan bale is greatest, than is bote a nye bore. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. (?1560) lxxxxviii. sig. C*vi It is oftentymes sayd, he yt hath an yl neyghbour hath oftentymes an yll mornynge. 1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus (new ed.) sig. G Our englysshe prouerbe, which speketh in this wise. A nere neyghbour is better than a farre frende. 1598 tr. G. de La Perrière sig. Oiij The common Prouerbe saith, That who so hath a good neighbor, hath a good morrow. 1642 G. Torriano 305 It's better to have a neer neighbour, than a remote kinsman. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Cumberland 217 When thy neighbour's house doth burn, Take heed the next be not thy turn. 1727 D. Defoe Pref. p. iv I shall have Neighbours Fare. 1776 J. Wesley 24 We have only neighbour's fare: for we cannot find there is any nation in Europe..where the government is not as complete tyranny as our own. 1910 W. G. Collingwood 182 But proximus ardet Ucalegon, which is to say, ‘Don't care's house is afire, and his neighbour is quaking.’ 1937 L. I. Wilder xxxiii. 194 There is nothing in the world so good as good neighbours. 1600 W. Shakespeare iii. iii. 7 Giue them their charge, neighbour Dogbery. View more context for this quotation 1607 (?a1425) (Harl. 2124) i. 233 Neighbour, if I the truth should say. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 60 Why Masters, my good Friends, mine honest Neighbours, will you vndo your selues? View more context for this quotation 1779 W. Cowper 50 Come, neighbours, we must wag. 1861 Jan. 15/2 Now jest tell us, neighbor Frink, what that..cow has been fed on, for I don't want to feed mine the same way. 1873 in A. J. Ellis (1889) v. 7* Well, neighbour, you and he may both laugh at this news of mine. 1891 W. Morris xiv. 99 But, dear neighbour, that is not a very effective salve for the wound caused by the ‘tyranny of a majority’ in our society. 1984 G. McCaughrean (1988) 69 We're with you, neighbour Snatch! they cried. 2. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > neighbour > living in neighbouring country OE 201 Neapolite ða heora nehgeburas..on hæðnum þeawum dwelgende wæron. lOE (Laud) anno 1117 Eall þis gear wunode se cyng Henri on Normandig, for þes cynges unsehte of France & his oðra nehhebura. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) i. 5846 Fro a stede tille anoþer he hasted. Neihburs nere & fer fro, to alle he did scaþe & wo. a1450 (Bodl. e Mus.) 33 (MED) His lon [L. terra] is nytheborgh and marchid with Preter Ionis lond. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour (Adv.) i. 87 Thai trowyt that he, as gud nychtbur, And as freyndsome compositur, Wald hawe iugyt in lawte. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy (1901) I. i. xi. 66 We faucht nocht alanerlie with oure Inemyis, bot als with..oure nychtbouris [v.r. nebouris] and freyndis. 1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane f. cccxcixv Nowe that he possesseth Lorayne, he shall be their nere neighbour. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie (1888) I. 97 In speiche thay differ not far frome thair nytbouris the Inglise men. 1642 Lady Dowdall Narr. Def. Kilferry Castle in J. T. Gilbert (1882) III. 72 By the report of the naibers that night we kiled a hondred of them. 1667 T. Sprat 65 This has rous'd all our neighbors to fix their eies upon England. 1674 D. Brevint 239 Being worth one thousand Years [indulgence] to the Romans, two thousand to remoter Neighbours. 1711 J. Swift Argument abolishing Christianity in 181 His People would be more Scandalized at our Infidelity than our Christian Neighbours. 1798 T. Jefferson Let. 4 June in (2003) XXX. 389 They will join their Northern neighbors. 1827 J. F. Cooper I. xv. 220 Those States, of which he had been an ignorant neighbour half his life. 1858 T. Carlyle II. vi. ii. 15 A difficult huff of quarrel..had fallen-out with his neighbour of Saxony. 1910 I. 235/2 The trapper could no longer satisfy his..wants by the mere exchange of his pelts for his lowland neighbour's corn and oil. 1961 W. A. Anderson Foreword 11 By doing together..what they believed to be their daily job,..but always with compassion for their Indian neighbors, they accomplished a great and enduring good. 2001 15 Oct. a24/5 The U.N...would bring greater legitimacy to the effort in the eyes of the Afghans and their neighbors. the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 272 Þe wombe pot þe walleð ofmetes & mare ofdrunh is se nech nechebur [c1230 Corpus nehbur; a1250 Nero neihebur] to þet fulitochȝe lim. c1390 G. Chaucer 2966 Confessioun is neighebore to innocence. c1485 ( G. Hay (2005) 152 Bot sum othir of the gude herbis yat ar nere thaim next nychtbouris, mon be ruggit vp with thame. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) xvi. 478 And specialy quhill the Dowglas So neir hand by thair nychtbour was. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano sig. Fiij Sklender and white wyne is vniuersally neighbour to water. 1567 J. Maplet f. 9v For infection of rustie..Mineralles being nigh neighbour to them. 1597 W. Shakespeare iv. ii. 44 The deepe reuoluing wittie Buckingham, No more shall be the neighbour to my counsell. View more context for this quotation 1607 E. Topsell 293 The Thuringean horsses are neighbors to Hessis. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil 124 Nor place them..where the Yeugh their pois'nous Neighbour grows. View more context for this quotation 1738 J. Wesley (new ed.) cxlvii. v Cedars, Neighbours to the Sky. 1820 P. B. Shelley Sensitive Plant in 160 Each one was interpenetrated With the light and the odour its neighbour shed. 1880 B. Disraeli II. ii. 22 ‘Lady Montfort looks well to-night,’ said the neighbour of Myra. 1895 T. Hardy ii. i. 95 The tappings of each ivy leaf on its neighbour were as the mutterings of their mournful souls. 1925 W. Cather ii. vi. 251 Up there alone, a close neighbour to the sun, I seemed to get the solar energy in some direct way. 1984 R. Howard iii. 66 The beauty of our dance, each limb lapping its neighbor, comes from our spanning, our holding together an empty space. 2001 J. Franzen 294 Enid spoke first to her left-hand neighbor, Mr. Söderblad. the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > two > pair > [noun] > one of a pair 1820 May 163/1 The quean's as single yet as a neighbourless stocking.] 1880 W. H. Patterson (at cited word) A'm lookin' for the neighbour of ma shai. 1887 J. Service 213 The stockins werna neebors. 1958 22 May He..exposed the back of another shoe, which appeared to be the neighbour of the other shoe. 1996 C. I. Macafee 234/1 Neighbour, one of a matching pair, e.g. of shoes. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie (1888) I. 47 Nichtbouris to thame is Buquhane. 1635 D. Person i. 12 The Comets..and falling Stars, etc. whereof many are neighbours with this Ignean-sphere, we visibly see. 1871 W. Alexander xv. 108 I ance was neepours wi' a chap 't could 'a deen that. 1993 A. Chaudhuri xx. 87 Anonymous people who were neighbours with history. B. adj. ( attributive). the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > neighbourly c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 1528 in W. M. Metcalfe (1896) II. 44 Ferme in pece & cheryte, & nethbour lof, luk ay ȝe be. 1572 in J. Cranstoun (1891) I. xxxiii. 21 My coller of trew nichtbour lufe it was. 2. the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] > neighbouring c1485 ( G. Hay (1993) xxxvi. 119 Or othir nychtbouris princis. 1530 J. Palsgrave 247/2 Neighbour woman, uoisine. a1600 ( W. Stewart tr. H. Boece (1858) II. 272 The nychbour men that duelt into that steid, Tha schew to him that Convallus wes deid. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. i. 151 Our Neighbour-Shepheards Sonne. View more context for this quotation 1687 T. Brown Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. (1704) 234 I can dive as far into a Millstone as any of my Neighbour Princes. 1712 J. Arbuthnot vii. 13 His Neighbour Tradesmen began to shun his Company. 1777 R. Forbes Ulysses' Answer 27 in I dinna like to tell ill tales Upo' my neiper man. 1853 W. Watson 42 The lasses..Ay botherin' at their neibor chiels. 1915 W. Cather i. xv. 106 Mrs. Johnson rustled away to tell a neighbor woman. 1934 E. Linklater 231 Then he and Willy walked part of the way home with the neighbour-man. 1994 N. Baker ix. 129 Watching a seventeen-year-old neighbor kid drive her lawn-mower around. 1996 C. I. Macafee (at cited word) Neighbour man, woman, etc. used in preference to the less specific term neighbour. 1579 E. Spenser Jan. 50 I longed the neighbour towne to see. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece (Mar Lodge) (1946) i. vii. f.48v He ferit nocht litill the incrementis of thai nychtboure naciouns. c1616 R. C. (1871) iv. 1594 In a neighbour land he died. 1643 J. Angier 11 That their lent assistance might be loosed for home and neighbour defence. 1668 T. Sprat Life Cowley in A. Cowley sig. a2v Many great revolutions, which..disturb'd the peace of all our Neighbour-States. 1719 W. Woods 366 The Proportion they severally bear..in our Neighbour Nations. 1797 W. Godwin i. xi. 97 Treat the neighbour-state as a conquered province. 1869 F. W. Newman 288 In Rome I see a power which..drove out every neighbour people. 1934 G. D. H. Cole & M. Cole iii. v. 299 The demand for regional self-government comes to be connected with the claims of the various national minorities to cultural as well as political autonomy, if not to absolute independence or right of secession to a neighbour State. 1992 2 May f7/1 Occasionally..border guards will scowl when they view a passport entry stamp from a neighbour nation currently out of favour. the world > space > distance > nearness > [adjective] 1579 E. Spenser June f. 23v Whose Echo made the neyghbour groues to ring. 1604 W. Shakespeare iii. iv. 186 Ile lugge the guts into the neighbour roome. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont 121 Lights of Heaven, which do suit themselves to the motion of the nearest, or Neighbour-lights. 1696 W. Whiston Disc. conc. Mosaick Hist. Creation 13 in The Moon, our attending and neighbour Planet. 1785 W. Cowper iii. 665 Some..catch the neighbour shrub With clasping tendrils. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Gardener's Daughter in (new ed.) II. 23 The steer..Leaning his horns into the neighbour field, And lowing to his fellows. 1879 W. E. Gladstone II. vi. 332 Saint John's, the neighbour college to Macaulay's justly loved and honoured Trinity. 1927 J. B. S. Haldane & J. S. Huxley (1934) ii. 73 Each [chromosome] contains a great number of these factors arranged along it in a definite order, each factor always keeping between the same two neighbour-factors. 1974 R. Adams lvi. 466 She..came over to the bed, bent and kissed him lightly and then nodded, smiling, towards the neighbour room, as though to say she would sleep there. 1991 75 345 The first version of the transition represents Death emerging from the underworld by placing the Todmotiv (with neighbor tones in reverse order) in the upper voice. 1597 W. Shakespeare i. i. 119 Such neighbour neerenes to our sacred bloud Should nothing priuiledge him. View more context for this quotation 1692 J. Dryden (new ed.) Pref. sig. b4 To Christen an imperfection by the name of some neighbour virtue. Compoundsthe world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood > of one's neighbour 1592 T. Kyd i. sig. A4 And gapes to swallow neighbour bounding lands. 1599 W. Shakespeare i. i. 79 Prophaners of this neighbour-stayned steele. View more context for this quotation 1602 R. Carew ii. f. 138v You neighbour-scorners, holy-prowd, Goe people Roche's cell. 1996 R. Haas 45 No trace of discomfort on his mild, neighbor-loving face. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). neighbourneighborv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: neighbour n. Etymology: < neighbour n. †1. the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > place near > place adjacent ?c1525 (a1503) (Coll. Arms M.13) (1990) iv. 74 This Place of Richemond is neighburd also with ij most devoute and vertuous housis of religion. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Sonn. xxix Like some weak Lords neighbord by mightie Kings. 1615 G. Sandys (1637) 22 The hot water bathes, heretofore adorned, and neighboured with magnificent building. 1670 J. Milton v. 219 The Danes..not likeing perhaps to be neighbour'd with Strong Towns. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in II. xv. 590 But Jove Hath neighbour'd all thy evil with this good. 1856 R. A. Vaughan II. viii. vii. 75 Such passages..are preludes or interludes neighboured by heavy monologue. 1873 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. ii. viii. 210 Provided they be neighboured by water. the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement towards a thing, person, or position > move towards or approach (a thing, place, or person) [verb (transitive)] > bring near 1594 R. Carew tr. J. Huarte v. 54 These ventricles..are so vnited and nere neighboured, that neither..can be distinguished. 1608 W. Shakespeare i. 112 The barbarous Scythyan..Shall bee as well neighbour'd . View more context for this quotation a1662 P. Heylyn (1668) 60 The Reversion of a Prebend in that Church; which..neighbour'd him to the Court. 1770 H. Brooke V. xvii. 241 That..my dust may be neighboured..to your precious dust. 1803 W. Godwin II. xlvi. 400 To contemplate this ancient baron neighboured to a throne. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in 17 So neighbour'd to him, and yet so unseen She stood. 1586 T. Bright xii. 60 Neither that diuerse [things] will so neighbour it together, as to dwell in one indiuiduall subiect. 1828 N. Webster (at cited word) To neighbor it, in colloquial language, to cultivate friendly intercourse by mutual visits. 3. the world > space > distance > nearness > be near [verb (intransitive)] 1592 A. Day (rev. ed.) i. sig. U2 A certayne poore man,..neighbouring neare vnto one worshipfull and of great accompt. 1615 J. Day 349 Let vs, Beloved, beare affection..vnto such as Neighbour at any time neere vnto vs. 1657 Earl of Monmouth tr. P. Paruta 81 Their own Soldiers, and..their Associates, who did all neighbor neer upon them. 1805 R. Southey ii. i. 193 Oh no! we neighbour nearer to the Sun. 1993 A. L. Hall 49 As children, Perry and Crilly neighboured in a row of dwellings near the mental hospital. society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > types of inhabitant [verb (transitive)] > be neighbour to the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be next to > on any occasion 1872 E. J. Irving 228 Twa lads that I neiboured lang syne. 1892 J. Lumsden 212 Will you neighbour us in the smoking-room? 1912 J. L. Waugh 19 She gaed to her bed, and keepit it a' the time we neibored them. 1964 in (1965) at Neibour I neighbourt him means ‘I worked beside him at a certain farm.’ 4. 1593 W. Shakespeare sig. Cv A copp's that neighbors by. View more context for this quotation 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden i. 269 Neighbouring hereunto is Odiam glorious in these daies. 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin (new ed.) i. 1 The upper part..is termed Hypochondrium, neighbouring upon the lower gristles of the Ribs. 1821 J. Clare II. 97 Neighbouring nigh, one lonely elder-tree Is all that's left. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus II. 51 The peaks That neighbour with the stars. 1991 J. Litten (BNC) 21 Whitechapel neighboured on to Spitalfields. the world > space > distance > nearness > be near to [verb (transitive)] > be next to ?1617 W. Alexander iii. sig. ¶3v As they were walking alongst a Gallerie, they heard from a Chamber neighbouring the side of it, a dolorous sound. 1630 tr. G. Botero (rev. ed.) 591 The principall Citie is called Paquin, neighbouring Tartary. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Bucks. 132 Those that in the same earth neighbour thee. 1798 W. Cowper 13 Oct. (1984) IV. 464 It neighbours nearly and as nearly resembles the scenery of Catfield. 1823 C. Lamb in 271 He seemed..to suck in fresh vigour from the soil which he neighboured. 1873 R. Browning ii. 89 One whose father's house upon the Quai Neighboured the very house. 1893 25 Nov. 41/1 The years that neighboured their departure. 1920 R. Fry (1981) 194 My own house is neighboured by houses of the most gentlemanly picturesqueness. 1932 W. de la Mare 30 The region of Pure Mathematics..and the mood of the mind that is at home in it may resemble and even neighbour the region and mood of pure Nonsense. 1989 19 May 6/3 Now neighboured by Bangladeshi newcomers. the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > be similar [verb (intransitive)] > border upon, approach, or approximate a1640 P. Massinger (1976) v. ii. 79 To haue faith in hym Neighbours on treason. the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > render similar to [verb (transitive)] > approach, approximate, or border upon 1859 G. Meredith I. xi. 162 I can pretty nigh neighbour it with a guess. 1891 G. Meredith III. vii. 135 He neighboured sagacity when he pointed that interrogation relating to Nesta's precociousness. 1909 E. M. Forster (1954) 117 The ship on which Vashti sailed started now at sunset, now at dawn. But always, as it passed above Rheims, it would neighbour the ship that served between Helsingfors and the Brazils. 5. Cf. neighbouring n. 2. 1794 J. Sinclair XI. 451 (note) Those who have small pieces of ground, and neighbour, as they call it, with others in plowing. 1829 G. Robertson i. xii. 258 They could neighbour, one with another, with their horses or oxen to draw the plough. 1880 W. H. Patterson Neighbour, to give mutual assistance in farming, by landing and borrowing men and horses. 1996 C. I. Macafee 234/1 Neighbour, co-operate in farmwork by lending men and horses. the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > be sociable [verb (intransitive)] > associate in neighbourly way 1862 G. Borrow III. 79 The Welsh won't neighbour with them, or have anything to do with them, except now and then in the way of business. 1879 A. W. Tourgée xvi. 83 The few country-people who ‘neighbored with them’, as it is termed there, comprised their only society. 1893 F. T. Elworthy She is not one that neighbours with anyone. 1903 C. H. Smith 348 I could neighbor with him. 1910 D. G. Mitchell iii. 52 The folk oot-by are oure black for him to neibour wi'. 1923 5 215 Him an' me neighbored t'gether. 1981 L. A. Pederson et al. 0042/080 We neighbored with each other. 1896 G. F. Northall (at cited word) I don't care to neighbour: your house is never free if you do. 1903 IV. 247/2 Ah lived i' t'same street wi' her for mony a year but we nivver neighboured. 1963 G. Thomson v. 40 He and my father never had a quarrel all the years they ‘neighbored’ back and forth. 1975 J. Gould 188 Folks don't neighbor same's they used to. 1981 T. Thompson iv. 113 We had friends but we didn't neighbour much. the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)] > go with or match 1820 W. Scott II. xi. 341 The electuary..neighboured ill with the two spoonfuls of pease-porridge and the kirn-milk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.adj.eOE v.?c1525 |
