Definitions

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  • adjective UK, Canada Showing the qualities of a friendly and helpful neighbour.

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  • adjective exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor

Etymologies

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neighbour +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • Silence was her constant companion, and for sorrow she had been granted the touch that assuages the sharpness of pain and the love called neighbourly kindness.

    The Battle of the Strong — Complete A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Silence was her constant companion, and for sorrow she had been granted the touch that assuages the sharpness of pain and the love called neighbourly kindness.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • Silence was her constant companion, and for sorrow she had been granted the touch that assuages the sharpness of pain and the love called neighbourly kindness.

    The Battle of the Strong — Volume 4 A Romance of Two Kingdoms Gilbert Parker 1897

  • I was always taught that being "neighbourly" was a good thing.

    Oh, Those Civilians! - SpouseBUZZ 2009

  • The "trade" in each case is a kind of neighbourly community, separated in its parts by space, but joined in unity of sympathy.

    Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday

  • It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.

    Sense and Sensibility Austen, Jane, 1775-1817 1833

  • It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.

    Sense and Sensibility 1811

  • It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.

    Sense and Sensibility 1811

  • It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.

    Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1796

  • It gave to his intentions whatever of decision was wanting before; and he finally resolved, that it would be absolutely unnecessary, if not highly indecorous, to do more for the widow and children of his father, than such kind of neighbourly acts as his own wife pointed out.

    Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen 1796

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  • Evidentally we're not very neighbourly here.

    September 4, 2008