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Meaning of neighbour | Babel Free

Noun CEFR C1 Standard
ˈneɪbə

Definitions

  1. neighbour (a person living on adjacent or nearby land)
  2. Leng=es.
  3. 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.
    UK
  4. a resident or inhabitant of an area, especially of a neighborhood or a village
  5. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
    UK
  6. a person who lives near oneself. my next-door neighbour. buurbewoner, buurpersoon جار съсед vizinho soused der/die Nachbar(in) nabo γείτοναςvecino naaber همسایه naapuri voisin/-ine שכן पड़ोसी susjed szomszéd tetangga nágranni vicino 隣人 이웃 사람 kaimynas kaimiņš jiran buurmannabo, grannesąsiad همسايه vizinho vecin сосед sused, -ka sosed sused granne เพื่อนบ้าน komşu 鄰居 сусід; сусідка پڑوسي người láng giềng 邻居
  7. freeman, person of relatively high status associated with a place
  8. A fellow human being.
    UK
  9. a system allowing organized groups of people to police their neighbourhoods to prevent crime. buurtwag نِظام مُراقَبَة الحَي сензори за влизане с взлом sistema de vigilância de vizinhança bezpečnostní strážní služba der Nachbarschaftsschutz privat vagtværn φύλαξη γειτονιάς με περιπολίες πολιτών grupo de vigilancia vecinal naabrivalve حوالی naapurustopartio מִשמָר הַשְׁכוּנָה पड़ोसी की उचित भावना या चरित्र nadgledanje susjedstva {\b0 kb.} polgárőrség siskamling vigilanza di quartiere 自警の見回り 주민...
  10. neighboring, adjacent
  11. Anything located directly adjacent to something else.
    UK
  12. near or next in place. France and Belgium are neighbouring countries. naburig, aangrensend مُجاوِر съседен vizinho sousedící benachbart nabo- γειτονικόςvecino naaber- مجاور viereinen voisinשכן पड़ोस का susjedan, okolišni szomszédos bertetangga nærliggjandi, nágranna- vicino 隣りの 인접한 kaimyninis kaimiņu- berhampiran naburignabo-, granne-, tilstøtendesąsiedni نږدى ،هم سرحده vizinho vecin соседний susediaci soseden susedni angränsande, grann- ที่อยู่ใกล้เคียง yakın, komşu 鄰近的,毗鄰的 сусідній قريب کا ...
  13. (negative unneighbourly) friendly. a very neighbourly person. vriendskaplik, vriendskaplik وُدِيَّه дружелюбен sociável přátelský freundlich nabovenlig φιλικόςamigable, sociable heanaaberlik دوستانه ystävällinen amicalידידותי मित्रवत् prijateljski, dobrosusjedski barátságos ramah vingjarnlegur socievole 親しみやすい 친절한 kaimyniškas, draugiškas kaimiņu-; draudzīgs berbaik sesama jiran behulpzaamomgjengelig, som er en god nabo życzliwy دوستانه sociável prietenos дружелюбный priateľský prijateljski su...
    negative
  14. a person who lives near or next to another
  15. a person or thing near or next to another
  16. (when: intr, often foll by on) to be or live close (to a person or thing)
  17. A. N → vecino/a m/f; (= fellow being) → prójimo/a m/f, semejante mIsrael and its Arab neighbours → Israel y sus vecinos árabessee also next-door
    N
  18. B. VI to neighbour (up)on (= adjoin) → colindar con, estar contiguo a; (= be almost) → rayar ento neighbour with sb (US) → comportarse como buen vecino de algn
    VI
  19. C. CPD Good Neighbour Policy N (US) → Política f del Buen Vecino
    CPD

Equivalents

Afrikaans buurman buurvrou
አማርኛ ጎረቤት
العربية الجار جار جارة
Azərbaycanca qonşu
Беларуская сусед
Български гранича съсед
বাংলা প্রতিবেশী
བོད་སྐད ཁྱིམ་མཚེས
Català veí veïna
Čeština bližní soused sousedit sousedka
Cymraeg cymydog
Esperanto najbaro
Español prójima prójimo vecina vecino
Eesti naaber
Français prochain Prochaine voisin Voisine
Gaeilge comharsa
Gàidhlig nàbaidh
Galego veciño
עברית רע שכן
Հայերեն դրացի հարևան
Bahasa Indonesia tetangga
Íslenska nábúi nágranni
ქართული მეზობელი
Қазақша көрші қоңсы
한국어 이웃 이웃 사람
Lëtzebuergesch Noper Nopesch
Lietuvių kaimynas
Latviešu kaimiņš tuvākais
Македонски комшија комшика сосед сосетка
Монгол хөрш
Bahasa Melayu jiran tetangga
Malti ġar
မြန်မာဘာသာ အိမ်နီးချင်း
Română vecin vecină
Slovenčina sused
Slovenščina sosed
Svenska granne medmänniska nabo nästa
Kiswahili jirani majirani
தமிழ் அண்டை
తెలుగు పొరుగు
Тоҷикӣ ҳамсоя
Türkmençe goňşy
Tagalog kapitbahay
Türkçe komşu
Tiếng Việt hàng xóm láng giềng
Yorùbá aládùúgbò

Examples

“My neighbour has two noisy cats.”
“They′re our neighbours across the street.”
“1660, Hugh Peters, The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters, reprinted 1807, page 10, Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a neighbour by him, and being somewhat merily disposed, quoth he Oh neighbour, did you not see what a wind there was the other day?”
“Undine at length shrank back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent down and picked it up.”
“Neighbours enact their substantive noun when there′s a neighbour′s sickness in the night; as friends do theirs, the cindered and the green times through.”
“2009, D. Staufer, Classical Percolation, Asok K. Sen, Kamal K. Bardhan, Bikas K. Chakrabarti (editors), Quantum and Semi-Classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids, Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 762, page 4, Then a cluster is grown by letting each empty neighbour of an already occupied cluster site decide once and for all, whether it is occupied or empty. One needs to keep and to update a perimeter list of empty neighbours.”
“2011, Richard Jensen, Chris Cornelis, "Fuzzy-Rough Nearest Neighbour Classification", James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron (editors-in-chief), Transactions on Rough Sets XIII, Springer, Lecture Notes in Computing Science 6499, page 56, By contrast to the latter, our method uses the nearest neighbours to construct lower and upper approximations of decision classes, and classifies test instances based on their membership to these approximations.”
“Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.”
“1982, Bible (NKJV), Leviticus 19:18, You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.”
“The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.”

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