neighbor, neighbour
(noun) a nearby object of the same kind; “Fort Worth is a neighbor of Dallas”; “what is the closest neighbor to the Earth?”
neighbor, neighbour
(noun) a person who lives (or is located) near another
neighbor, neighbour
(verb) be located near or adjacent to; “Pakistan neighbors India”
neighbor, neighbour
(verb) live or be located as a neighbor; “the neighboring house”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
neighbour (plural neighbours) (British spelling)
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.
One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
(biblical) A fellow human being.
• bydweller
• (Christian sense): fellow human being, fellow, fellow man
• (biblical): stranger, foreigner
neighbour (third-person singular simple present neighbours, present participle neighbouring, simple past and past participle neighboured) (British spelling)
(transitive) To be adjacent to
(intransitive, followed by "on"; figurative) To be similar to, to be almost the same as.
To associate intimately with; to be close to.
• The verb meaning "to be adjacent to" is most frequently encountered in its participle form: neighbouring.
Source: Wiktionary
25 November 2024
(noun) infestation with slender threadlike roundworms (filaria) deposited under the skin by the bite of black fleas; when the eyes are involved it can result in blindness; common in Africa and tropical America
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
