neighbor
/ˈneɪ.bɚ/ verb C2- To be adjacent to · Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
- To be similar to, to be almost the same as. · That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
- To associate intimately with; to be close to.
He/she/it neighbors · Past neighbored · Past participle neighbored · -ing form neighboring
Verb forms
- Base form
- neighbor
- He/she/it
- neighbors
- Past
- neighbored
- Past participle
- neighbored
- -ing form
- neighboring
From the library
The stout lady occasionally turned her head squarely around and surveyed Anne through her eyeglasses until Anne, acutely sensitive of being so scrutinized, felt that she must scream aloud; and the white-lace girl kept talking audibly to her next neighbor about the “country bumpkins” and “rustic belles” in the audience, languidly anticipating “such fun” from the displays of local talent on the program.
When their strife was at its height, a Bramble from the neighboring hedge lifted up its voice, and said in a boastful tone: “Pray, my dear friends, in my presence at least cease from such vain disputings.”
A neighbor, seeing him overcome with grief and learning the cause, said, “Pray do not grieve so; but go and take a stone, and place it in the hole, and fancy that the gold is still lying there.
While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: “Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”
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