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Meaning of neighbour in English

neighbour
noun [ C ]
UK (US neighbor)
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/ˈneɪ.bər/ us
/ˈneɪ.bɚ/
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A2
someone who lives very close to you:
Some of the neighbours have complained about the noise from our party.
Have you met Pat, my next-door neighbour?
B1
a country that is next to another country:
The relationship between Scotland and its southern neighbour (= England) has not always been peaceful.
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neighbour
verb [ T ]
UK
uk
/ˈneɪ.bər/ us
/ˈneɪ.bɚ/
(US neighbor)
(of a place) to be next to or near to another place:
The Republic of Korea is neighboured by China to the west, Japan to the east, and North Korea to the north.
The hotel is close to St. Mark's Square but also neighbours the less frequented old quarter of Venice.
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(Definition of neighbour from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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What does this entail for the way in which we should love our neighbours?
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The possession of high prestige and symbolic resources might promote more demanding attitudes towards children, neighbours, shopkeepers and service personnel.
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We are in debt to our neighbours, since we cannot settle up for everything on time.
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They show opportunities for all parties - parents, kin, neighbours and community leaders - to try a hand at matchmaking.
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The company holds regular liaison meetings with its neighbours and also distributes its regular community newsletter to more than 9000 local homes and businesses.
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Finally, cells give out and receive signals from neighbouring cells.
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By copying their neighbours' success and concentrating on one particular product, three areas have become noted for their specialities.
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Languages also show a tendency to become more like their neighbours in the same geographical region.
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A few were probably residents of neighbouring parishes who happened to have a child baptized away from their home parish.
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An essential component of the model is to specify the numbers of neighbours each cell needs before it can bind to another.
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In particular the importance of neighbours is investigated.
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He envisages a notion of social learning that goes beyond the ability of agents to adjust in the light of their neighbours' influence.
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A total of 70% of the respondents said they experienced problems with trespassers on their land, either from neighbouring villages or from the bedouin.
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However, the number of rhyme neighbours and the total number of neighbours according to the one-phoneme-different criterion are highly correlated, r=0.89, p<0.001.
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The paper presents a solution to cycle hopping and a new transmit coding based on pulse duration to differentiate neighbouring transmitters in the ring.
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Collocations with neighbour

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closest neighbours
A network is called regular, if each agent is connected to his closest neighbours.
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eastern neighbours
Despite such persistent contact, the western herders never established political hegemony over their eastern neighbours during this long period.
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friendly neighbour
It wants and desires—it has always desired—to remain a friendly neighbour.
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鄰居, 鄰邦，鄰國…
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邻居, 邻邦，邻国…
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vecino, vecina, compañero…
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komşu, yakındaki, yanıbaşındaki şey/kimse…
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voisin/-ine [masculine-feminine], voisin/-ine…
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veí, veïna, company…
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buurman…
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nabo…
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granne…
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nabo [masculine], nabo, granne…
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