neighbour

Значение (Английский)

Noun

1. 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.
2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
3. A fellow human being.
4. Anything located directly adjacent to something else.

Verb

1. To be adjacent to
2. To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
3. To associate intimately with; to be close to.

Синонимы

neighbor

neighbor

fellowman

fellow man

border

fellow

next-door neighbour

fellow citizen

friend

neighboring

adjoin

contiguous

dweller

habitant

inhabitant

juxtaposed

localise

localize

march

neighborhood

neighbourhood

neighbouring

next

occupant

resident

tangent

tie

vicinal

near-by

abut

acquintance

fellow-villager

near neighbour

fellow inhabitant

abutter

abutting

acquaintance

adjacent

adjoining

associate

borderer

bystander

companion

comrade

Пишется через дефис как

neigh‧bour

Произносится как (IPA)

/ˈneɪbə/

Этимология (Английский)

From Middle English neyghebour, neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, from Old English nēahġebūr (“neighbour”), from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”, literally “near-dweller”), equivalent to nigh (“near”) + bower (“farmer”). Cognate with Scots nichbour (“neighbour”), Saterland Frisian Noaber (“neighbour”), Dutch nabuur (“neighbour”), German Low German Naber (“neighbour”), German Nachbar (“neighbour”), Danish nabo (“neighbour”), Norwegian nabo (“neighbour”), Icelandic nábúi (“neighbour”), Finnish naapuri (“neighbour”), Estonian naaber (“neighbour”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English prome (“neighbour”), borrowed from Old French proeme, proime, proisme (“neighbour”).