Read full poem →But no, they will not; they must still
Wrest their neighbour to their will,
And make me dance as they desire
Dictionary Entry
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.
In a Sentence
“My neighbour has two noisy cats.”
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Origin
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Common Phrases
. neighbourneighbour thyneighbour nearest
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Poetry examples for “neighbour”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Here life has death for neighbour
And far from eye or ear
Read full poem →The neighbour sits in his window and plays the flute.
From my bed I can hear him,
Read full poem →Must we abandon the future for fear of omitting the present,
Quit our own fireside hopes at the alien call of a neighbour,
To the mere possible shadow of Deity offer the victim?
Read full poem →Be pious! Give the beggar pelf,
And love your neighbour as yourself!
You, who yet love, though all is o'er,
Read full poem →"A thousand siths I curse that careful hour
Wherein I long'd the neighbour town to see,
And eke ten thousand siths I bless the stoure
Read full poem →I more delight than lark in summer days,
Whose echo made the neighbour groves to ring,
And taught the birds, which in the lower spring
Read full poem →What did they then, but made a composition
With their next neighbour priest, for light condition,
To whom their living they resigned quite