neighbour vs orient

neighbour

verb
  • To be adjacent to 

  • To be similar to, to be almost the same as. 

  • To associate intimately with; to be close to. 

noun
  • 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. 

  • One who is near in sympathy or confidence. 

  • A fellow human being. 

orient

verb
  • To build or place (something) so as to face eastward. 

  • To familiarize (oneself or someone) with a circumstance or situation. 

  • To set the focus of (something) so as to appeal or relate to a certain group. 

  • To change direction to face a certain way. 

  • To direct towards or point at a particular direction. 

  • To align or place (a person or object) so that his, her, or its east side, north side, etc., is positioned toward the corresponding points of the compass; (specifically, surveying) to rotate (a map attached to a plane table) until the line of direction between any two of its points is parallel to the corresponding direction in nature. 

  • To determine which direction one is facing. 

adj
  • Of a pearl or other gem: of great brilliance and value; (by extension) bright, lustrous. 

  • Of, facing, or located in the east; eastern, oriental. 

name
  • Usually preceded by the: alternative letter-case form of Orient (“a region or a part of the world to the east of a certain place; countries of Asia, the East (especially East Asia)”) 

noun
  • The brilliance or colour of a high-quality pearl. 

  • The part of the horizon where the sun first appears in the morning; the east. 

How often have the words neighbour and orient occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )