1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Neighbour

NEIGHBOUR (O. Eng. néahgebúr, from néah, “nigh,” “near”) and gebúr, “boor,” literally “dweller,” “husbandman”; cf. Dan. and Swed. nabo, Ger. Nachbar), properly one who lives in a house close to one, hence any one of a number of persons living in the same locality. From Biblical associations (Luke x. 27) the word is used widely of one’s fellow-men.