neighbor
/ˈneɪ.bɚ/ noun A1- 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. · My neighbour has two noisy cats.· They′re our neighbours across the street.
- One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
- A fellow human being.
- Anything located directly adjacent to something else. · The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.
Plural neighbors
From the library
TWO FROGS were neighbors.
I wake them up in the night to their work.” “That is the very reason why we must the more kill you,” they replied; “for when you wake your neighbors, you entirely put an end to our business.”
Finally a neighbor said to them, “If you go on in this way, you will soon destroy by frequent use the pleasure of your exchange, and each will again wish to retain the fruits of his own sport.”
I lent you money, and you returned it; that’s like good neighbors, and we are quits.”
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