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means A person who lives near you — in the next house, flat, or plot of land.

from Built from two old Germanic pieces: 'neah' (near) and 'gebur' (dweller, farmer, peasant — someone who dwells or tills the land). So a neighbour was literally your 'near-dweller,' the person whose farm or hut sat close enough to yours that your lives were bound to overlap. The spelling split later — Americans dropped the 'u' (neighbor), the British kept it — but both trace back to the same near-dweller.