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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 350 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NEIGHBOUR (O. Eng. neahgebiir, from Walt, " nigh," " near ") and gebiir, " boor," literally " dweller," " husbandman "; cf. See also:Dan. and Swed. nabo, Ger. Nachbar), properly one who lives in a See also:house See also:close to one, hence any one of a number of persons living in the same locality. From Biblical associations (See also:Luke x. 27) the word is used widely of one's See also:fellow-men.

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