neighbour

名词 n. 动词 v.
/ˈneɪbə/    /ˈneɪbɚ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  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. UK
    — My neighbour has two noisy cats.
  2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence. UK
    — Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.
  3. A fellow human being. UK
    — 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.
  4. Anything located directly adjacent to something else. UK
    — The flood fill algorithm fills an area with colour by starting at one pixel and recursively visiting its neighbours.
动词 v.
  1. To be adjacent to UK,transitive
    — Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
  2. To be similar to, to be almost the same as. UK,figuratively,intransitive
    — That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
  3. To associate intimately with; to be close to. UK
    — […] the barbarous Scythyan, […] / Shall bee as well neighbour’d, pittyed and relieued / As thou my ſometime daughter.

词形变化

neighbours plural neighbor alternative,US neighba alternative,pronunciation-spelling neyghbour alternative,archaic naybour alternative,obsolete neibor alternative,obsolete neibour alternative,obsolete neighbore alternative,obsolete neighboure alternative,obsolete neyghbor alternative,obsolete neyghbore alternative,obsolete neyghboure alternative,obsolete neighbours present,singular,third-person neighbouring participle,present neighboured participle,past neighboured past neighbor alternative,US neighba alternative,pronunciation-spelling neyghbour alternative,archaic naybour alternative,obsolete neibor alternative,obsolete neibour alternative,obsolete neighbore alternative,obsolete neighboure alternative,obsolete neyghbor alternative,obsolete neyghbore alternative,obsolete neyghboure alternative,obsolete

词源

词源 1
From Middle English neahhebur, neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, nehhebur, neyburwe, neyebore, neyghebour, neypur, neȝbore, neȝhbor, neȝȝebour, from Old English nēahġebūr (“neighbour”), from Proto-West Germanic *nāhwagabūrō, from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”, literally “near-dweller”), from *nēhwaz (“close, near”) + *gabūrô (“dweller”). Equivalent to nigh (“near”) + bower (“farmer”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots nebour, neebour, neibour (“neighbour”), Yola nipore, nypore (“neighbour”), North Frisian Naiber, naibüür, näiber (“neighbour”), Saterland Frisian Noaber (“neighbour”), Alemannic German Naachpuur, Nochbär (“neighbour”), Central Franconian Nohber (“neighbour”), Dutch nabuur (“neighbour”), Low German Naber, Nahwer (“neighbour”), German Nachbar (“neighbour”), Luxembourgish Noper (“neighbour”), Vilamovian nokwer, nökver, nökwer (“neighbour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish nabo (“neighbour”), Faroese nábúgvi (“neighbour”), Icelandic nábúi (“neighbour”), Manx naboo (“neighbour”), Scottish Gaelic nàbaidh (“neighbour”), Estonian naaber (“neighbour”), Finnish naapuri (“neighbour”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English prome (“neighbour”), borrowed from Old French proeme, proime, proisme (“neighbour”) (<< Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
词源 2
From Middle English neahhebur, neighebor, neighbour, neihebur, nehhebur, neyburwe, neyebore, neyghebour, neypur, neȝbore, neȝhbor, neȝȝebour, from Old English nēahġebūr (“neighbour”), from Proto-West Germanic *nāhwagabūrō, from Proto-Germanic *nēhwagabūrô (“neighbour”, literally “near-dweller”), from *nēhwaz (“close, near”) + *gabūrô (“dweller”). Equivalent to nigh (“near”) + bower (“farmer”).
Cognates
Cognate with Scots nebour, neebour, neibour (“neighbour”), Yola nipore, nypore (“neighbour”), North Frisian Naiber, naibüür, näiber (“neighbour”), Saterland Frisian Noaber (“neighbour”), Alemannic German Naachpuur, Nochbär (“neighbour”), Central Franconian Nohber (“neighbour”), Dutch nabuur (“neighbour”), Low German Naber, Nahwer (“neighbour”), German Nachbar (“neighbour”), Luxembourgish Noper (“neighbour”), Vilamovian nokwer, nökver, nökwer (“neighbour”), Danish, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish nabo (“neighbour”), Faroese nábúgvi (“neighbour”), Icelandic nábúi (“neighbour”), Manx naboo (“neighbour”), Scottish Gaelic nàbaidh (“neighbour”), Estonian naaber (“neighbour”), Finnish naapuri (“neighbour”).
Eclipsed non-native Middle English prome (“neighbour”), borrowed from Old French proeme, proime, proisme (“neighbour”) (<< Latin proximus (“nearest, next”).
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