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Flatmate vs Neighbour - What's the difference?

flatmate | neighbour |

As nouns the difference between flatmate and neighbour

is that flatmate is a person with whom one shares a flat while neighbour is 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.

As a verb neighbour is

to be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring).

flatmate

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A person with whom one shares a flat.
  • * 2002 , Elaine Lally, At Home with Computers , page 149,
    • Yet when both Regine and her flatmate' are at home they tend to spend their time in their rooms, although Regine (and probably the ' flatmate too) tends to spend more time in the communal areas of the flat when the other is not at home.
  • * 2007 , C. N. Barton, The Cambridge Diaries: A Tale of Friendship, Love and Economics , page 121,
    • “So, it would probably [be] best if we could find another flatmate and go for a flat of five, and if old Chip does pull out, at least we can then drop down to a flat of four. What do you reckon?”
  • * 2011 , Ghada Osman, A Journey in Islamic Thought: The Life of Fathi Osman , page 63,
    • Kamal moved Fathi?s things into his own room, and the two became flatmates .
    The apartment in which Kamal lived was spacious, with several large rooms and various flatmates .
  • (UK, NZ) A person with whom one shares a rental property, not necessarily a flat.
  • * 1993 , Beryl Fletcher, The Iron Mouth , page 190,
    • It had been weeks since all the flatmates had sat down together for a meal. Communication was breaking down. Written notes had begun to appear all over the house; please don?t touch this food, I bought it especially for Hermione .
  • * 2003 , Jen Birch, Congratulations! It?s Asperger Syndrome , page 51,
    • One night, one of the flatmates (the one who owned the house) was ranting and raving all night about her girlfriend.
  • * 2007 , CCH New Zealand, Top 100 Questions and Answers on Taxing Land Transactions , page 97,
    • The position may have been different when your client was living in the house with the flatmates .

    See also

    * housemate * roommate

    neighbour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (US) neighbor * (archaic) neyghbour * (obsolete) naybor, naybour, neibor, neibour, neighbore, neighboure, neyghbor, neyghbore, neyghboure

    Noun

  • (en noun) (British spelling)
  • 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.
    • My neighbour has an annoying cat.
    They?re our neighbours across the street.
    My neighbour is very irritable and grumpy at times.
  • * 1660 , , The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters , reprinted 1807, page 10,
    • Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a neighbour' by him, and being somewhat merily disposed, quoth he Oh ' neighbour , did you not see what a wind there was the other day?
  • * 1913 , , 2010, unnumbered page,
    • Undine at length shrank back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent down and picked it up.
  • * 1973 , , Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea , page 126,
    • Neighbours' enact their substantive noun when there?s a ' neighbour?s sickness in the night; as friends do theirs, the cindered and the green times through.
  • * 2009 , D. Staufer, Classical Percolation'', Asok K. Sen, Kamal K. Bardhan, Bikas K. Chakrabarti (editors), ''Quantum and Semi-Classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids , Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 762, page 4,
    • Then a cluster is grown by letting each empty neighbour' of an already occupied cluster site decide once and for all, whether it is occupied or empty. One needs to keep and to update a perimeter list of empty ' neighbours .
  • * 2011', Richard Jensen, Chris Cornelis, ''Fuzzy-Rough Nearest '''Neighbour Classification'', James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron (editors-in-chief), ''Transactions on Rough Sets XIII , Springer, Lecture Notes in Computing Science 6499, page 56,
    • By contrast to the latter, our method uses the nearest neighbours to construct lower and upper approximations of decision classes, and classifies test instances based on their membership to these approximations.
  • One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.
  • (biblical) any fellow human being
  • * You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. —Leviticus 19:18 (NKJV)

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (christian sense) fellow, fellow man

    Antonyms

    * (biblical) stranger, foreigner

    Derived terms

    * good fences make good neighbours * love for one's neighbour * neighbourhood (pos n) * neighbouring (pos n) * neighbourly (pos a) * neighbourliness (pos n)

    Verb

    (en-verb) (British spelling)
  • To be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring)
    • Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
  • * Sandys
    • leisurely ascending hills that neighbour the shore
  • To approach; to verge on.
    • That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
  • To associate intimately with.
    • (Shakespeare)