Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having or exhibiting the qualities of a friendly neighbor.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Becoming a neighbor; kind; considerate: as, a neighborly attention.
- Cultivating familiar intercourse; interchanging visits; social: as, the people of the place are very neighborly.
- Synonyms Obliging, attentive, friendly.
- In the manner of a neighbor; with social attention and kindliness.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Appropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly.
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- adjective Having or exhibiting the
qualities of afriendly neighbor .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor
Etymologies
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Examples
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It seems the perfect excuse to exchange pleasantries and engage in neighborly chit-chat not found in the basic Spanish section of your favorite tourist guide.
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It seems the perfect excuse to exchange pleasantries and engage in neighborly chit-chat not found in the basic Spanish section of your favorite tourist guide.
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I’d think that such a concept would catch on better in urban, as opposed to suburban areas, but perhaps I’m underestimating suburbia … Interestingly, Uhl never mentions organics or permaculture, but I’d think these concepts would almost naturally spring from such relationships: how neighborly is it to throw chemicals on a shared plot of land …
Could Neighborhood Gardens Lead to More Sustainable Food? 2006
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Often described as neighborly, his work allows the interplay of humans by walking across a bridge or by gathering within a structure or a site (such as the plaza in New York City's Battery Park).
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Business: The women agree that President Obama seemed to give two speeches in his "neighborly" visit to the business group that whupped him in 2010.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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Being "neighborly" is, in this context, just another word for being realistic.
Why Obama and the chamber are getting friendlier Ezra Klein 2011
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Business: The women agree that President Obama seemed to give two speeches in his "neighborly" visit to the business group that whupped him in 2010.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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Business: The women agree that President Obama seemed to give two speeches in his "neighborly" visit to the business group that whupped him in 2010.
HuffPost Radio: Both Sides Now w/ Huffington and Matalin: Pharaoh Down, Dutch @ 100, Birth, Space HuffPost Radio 2011
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The group also called for both sides to establish "neighborly" relations by cooperating on technical issues to improve people's daily lives.
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For me, those words were a guillotine ending forever whatever kind of neighborly relationship I might have otherwise entertained.
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