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
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There are plenty of people, in Avonlea and out of it, who can attend closely to their neighbors’ business by dint of neglecting their own; but Mrs.
Rachel up; she had known that the sight of Matthew jaunting off so unaccountably would be too much for her neighbor’s curiosity.
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.
Very different this from the plain benches at the Debating Club, filled with the homely, sympathetic faces of friends and neighbors.
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