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单词 neighbourless
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neighbourlessneighborlessadj.

Brit. /ˈneɪbələs/, U.S. /ˈneɪbərləs/
Forms: see neighbour n. and -less suffix.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: neighbour n., -less suffix.
Etymology: < neighbour n. + -less suffix.
Lacking a neighbour or neighbours; solitary, lonely.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective]
onlyOE
alonec1175
solitarya1340
lone1377
ledelessc1400
fellowless?c1425
savage1535
neighbourless1550
private1599
discompanied1601
unattended1603
disaccompanied1605
lonelya1616
marrowless?1635
companionless1644
unneighboured1657
unaccompanied1709
unescorted1774
uncompanioned1822
comradeless1891
1550 J. Heywood Hundred Epigrammes xxviii. sig. Biiv For this neighbourlie quietnesse Thou art the neighbour neighbourlesse.
a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy i, in Remains (1670) 6 These Gods tir'd with neighborless deceit Have rais'd their Thrones above Mortality.
1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 163/1 The quean's as single yet as a neighbourless stocking.
1846 C. G. Prowett tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound 14 Lone dweller by a neighbourless ravine.
1892 J. S. Fletcher When Charles I was King 4 Some homestead..so far from a village that its occupants are entirely neighbourless.
1901 Gallovidian 3 114 Murdered..by a left-hand straik frae a man wi' neibourless een.
1932 T. E. Lawrence tr. Homer Odyssey v As a neighbourless man in a lonely steading, before he goes forth covers his charring log under black wood-cinders.
1988 P. Beer Coll. Poems 204 Flowers which are neighbourless and neglected Straggle and gasp over synthetic urns.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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