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neighbour
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Neighbor \Neigh"bor\ (n[=a]"b[~e]r), n. [OE. neighebour, AS. ne['a]hgeb[=u]r; ne['a]h nigh + geb[=u]r a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. n[=a]hgib[=u]r. See Nigh, and Boor.] [Spelt also neighbour.] 1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off. --Chaucer. [1913 Webster] Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence. [1913 Webster] Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being. [1913 Webster] Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? --Luke x. 36. [1913 Webster] The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. --South. [1913 Webster] .
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\, neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\ Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly. [Chiefly Brit.] [PJC]
