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.

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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)