Neigh"bor , a. Near to another; adjoining; adjacent; next; neighboring. "The neighbor cities." Jer. l. 40. "The neighbor room." Shak.

Neigh"bor (nā"bẽr), n. [OE. neighebour, AS. neÁhgebūr; neÁh nigh + gebūr a dweller, farmer; akin to D. nabuur, G. nachbar, OHG. nāhgibūr. See Nigh, and Boor.] [Spelt also neighbour.]

1. A person who lives near another; one whose abode is not far off.Chaucer.

Masters, my good friends, mine honest neighbors. Shak.

2. One who is near in sympathy or confidence.

Buckingham No more shall be the neighbor to my counsel. Shak.

3. One entitled to, or exhibiting, neighborly kindness; hence, one of the human race; a fellow being.

Which now of these three, thinkest thou, was neighbor unto him that fell among the thieves? Luke x. 36.

The gospel allows no such term as "stranger;" makes every man my neighbor. South.

Neigh"bor , v. i. To dwell in the vicinity; to be a neighbor, or in the neighborhood; to be near. [Obs.]

A copse that neighbors by. Shak.

-- Webster's unabridged 1913