neighbour
noun
a person who lives near or next to another
neighbouring
-
a word derived from
neighbour.
Example Sentences
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It didn't take long for the plan to bear fruit, with larger fish finding a home in the protected area and then spreading into the neighbouring waters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 17, 2026
With long school holidays, France's teachers have to squeeze their curriculum into 162 days per year, compared to 225 days in neighbouring Germany, according to the OECD.
From Barron's ● Oct. 16, 2026
"Havering has been affected quite badly," PC Yoosef Outaleb tells us - partly because thieves use the back roads as a cut-through to neighbouring Essex.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2026
More than 1,500 people have been deployed to search old battlefields in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia -- neighbouring countries drawn into the war -- alongside thousands more engaged in data collection and analysis.
From Barron's ● Oct. 14, 2026
As soon as I could recover myself sufficiently, I hurried out after him and looked for him in the neighbouring streets; but he was gone.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
