noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
close
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Tau Ceti is a close neighbour , at a distance of only 12 light-years.
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His father happens to be a close neighbour of mine in the village of Comerford, that's all.
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In it, the feral mink often finds itself to be a close neighbour to vulnerable domestic stock.
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He could hardly adapt the style of the building's closest neighbour , the Soviet-like Novotel Hotel.
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As a close friend and neighbour of the elderly painter, Osterlind used to visit Renoir every day.
good
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Carson liked her because she seemed to display the ideal mix of warmth and distance that made a good neighbour .
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I have to rely on the kindness of a good neighbour to hang out my washing.
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When the elders at our place began to fall ill, Mrs Thwaites was the best neighbour we could have.
near
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A fellow farmer and near neighbour in Duns, Ian was an enthusiastic amateur racing driver.
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A near neighbour was recruited as a support worker and she too began to become involved in the family arguments.
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The library of course was gutted, but Walker Books, a near neighbour of the school, is coming to the rescue.
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The nearest neighbour , a farmer well into his seventies, was more than five miles and a range of low hills away.
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Charlton Heston lived on the other side and Warren Beatty was also a near neighbour .
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Does your nearest neighbour have a higher profile in the area?
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For example, development of spatial retrieval techniques and nearest neighbour analyses which can operate with fuzzy data.
■ NOUN
door
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It was their next door neighbour , the woman with the red hair.
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A next door neighbour stepped in to help by lending his car to get her family to Chelmsford station, she said.
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Fortunately my next door neighbour came round to tell me to stay indoors.
■ VERB
ask
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Caroline who had moved to a new area was asked by a neighbour to join a committee planning the local summer carnival.
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Lock any shed, garage or outhouse. Ask a neighbour to keep an eye on your house.
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A man came into her house asking after a neighbour and then for a glass of water.
love
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A New commandment I give unto you, you are to love your neighbour as yourself.
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And the second is like it: Love your neighbour as yourself.
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We are required to love one another, love our neighbour and to love our marriage partner.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
next-door neighbour
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Could some one tell my next-door neighbour, Mrs Timms?
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For the past year, she has suffered from incontinence, but her kind next-door neighbour has done regular washing for her.
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He could be the next-door neighbour, a friend, a blood relation.
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Her next-door neighbour, Philippa, was sitting on the draining-board kicking her legs up and down.
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I haven't had any trouble with him personally, but my next-door neighbour has.
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It's a compliment, by the way: Philippa is my next-door neighbour and startlingly beautiful.
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Next time you chat with your next-door neighbour, you are relieved to find that you don't fancy him.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And when they have cleared go round to see some neighbour .
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Each standing stone collects the raw power and channels it to its inward neighbour .
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One of his daughters takes me to borrow the telephone of a surly neighbour , who insists I pay for the call.
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She won a beauty competition in her local newspaper in 1981 after being nominated by a neighbour .
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This shadowing phenomenon can be used to determine nearest neighbour interatomic distances in surfaces.