Word Finder - neighbor

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A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

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My neighbour has two noisy cats.

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One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

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A fellow human being.

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To be adjacent to

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Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.

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(followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.

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That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.

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To associate intimately with; to be close to.

This treasure does not belong to me, for I bought only the ground; but when I offered it to my neighbor he refused it.

I left him with my neighbor and haven't been able to reach her.

My nearest neighbor is a mile distant, and no house is visible from any place but the hill-tops within half a mile of my own.

My neighbor, he added, when he heard who Rostov wanted.

Josh was certain it was a pack, not simply a gathering of neighbor dogs.

I lied to my parents when they asked me, but a neighbor had seen me there.

Elise said she was Lana's neighbor.

My neighbor is interested in astronomy and bought a small telescope.

He munched on a leftover casserole some thoughtful neighbor had donated to poor hero Fred and was about to doze when the telephone startled Mrs. Lincoln from his lap.

He loved his dog, his comrades, the French, and Pierre who was his neighbor, but Pierre felt that in spite of Karataev's affectionate tenderness for him (by which he unconsciously gave Pierre's spiritual life its due) he would not have grieved for a moment at parting from him.

He was merely a friendly neighbor practicing southern hospitality.

Oh for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through!

She wanted to aggravate the neighbor.

She knocked and inched away, not wanting to find her neighbor and dog dead.

Such was not my abode, for I found myself suddenly neighbor to the birds; not by having imprisoned one, but having caged myself near them.

He promised to pay for the window he broke and the neighbor said that he would not take any vengeance.

Our next door neighbor is an unmitigated nuisance to my family.

The Japanese, although they obtained from their neighbor almost everything of value she had to give them, did not know this wonderful ware, and their ignorance is in itself sufficient to prove their ceramic inferiority.

I have a neighbor who insists on working on the Sabbath.

In Beverly Hills, your poor neighbor might be one who had to buy the 14K-gold back scratcher instead of the diamond-encrusted platinum one everyone else is buying.

The man who has actually paid for his farm with labor on it is so rare that every neighbor can point to him.

Share thy happiness with thy neighbor, and may envy never dim the purity of that bliss.

That's all poetry and old wives' talk--all that doing good to one's neighbor!

What looks gray on your PC might look purple on your neighbor 's.

The man who leaves his bed at mirk midnight to quench the flames in a neighbor 's house, is no fool !

I watched from a neighbor 's veranda with a couple of men, drinking sugar cane rum.

France is our nearest neighbor, and most of us already have at least a smattering of the language.

Humans also hate bad breath - try raiding the neighbor 's rubbish tin to get something particularly smelly.

Do not approach your neighbor with an unfriendly attitude.

He had that same stern but compassionate look in his eyes that I saw when he wakened the neighbor boy from the dead.

Now, her neighbor, he 's a right old wanker.

The device was found by a neighbor on the windowsill of the house at Lowtown Terrace in Cullybackey at about 7.30am.

My sister said that one of her neighbor 's cats brought an enormous wood pigeon in after forcing it through the cat flap.

As a neighbor said, yon lad and wench of Johnson 's have n't been brought up, they 've been dragged up.

His father didn't want a dog, so Jamie had to masquerade the new puppy by telling his father that the puppy belonged to the neighbor.

Sue was surprised when her neighbor was convicted for being an abettor of the neighborhood break-ins.

They loved spending time together in their quiet hilltop aerie, miles away from the nearest neighbor.

I don't try to antagonize my neighbor, but we just can't seem to get along.

My neighbor antagonizes me by mowing his lawn at 6AM on the weekends.

The detective's knock was answered by a woman who introduced herself as Janice Riley, the neighbor he had spoken to on the phone.

You must take reasonable care to avoid acts or omissions which you can reasonably foresee would be likely to injure your neighbor.

In actuality, when Gerber began the hunt for a baby face to illustrate their new product line of baby food, a commercial artist by the name of Dorothy Smith submitted her charcoal drawing of her neighbor's four month old baby, Ann Cook.

In addition, the call center will try to phone the home owner and if he or she cannot be reached, ADT will phone a neighbor for more information on the condition of the home or neighbor.

Why not bake a batch of cookies and take it to a neighbor who is a shut-in?

These are known as "Good Neighbor Initiatives."

You receive a lovely present from a neighbor, but didn't think to include her on your holiday shopping list.

The neighbor we woke up says he's been around and he drives a dark blue van.

Accustomed to late-night jaunts to the neighbor's, Jack walked into the condo and took up his spot on the couch.

She apologized for disturbing them, and set the tray on the wicker table, explaining they were fresh and had just been delivered by a neighbor.

His relentless war against his neighbor caused fear and anger.