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Definition of Neighborly
1. Adjective. Exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor.
Similar to: Friendly
Derivative terms: Neighbor, Neighborliness, Neighbour, Neighbourliness
Definition of Neighborly
1. a. Appropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly.
Definition of Neighborly
1. Adjective. Having or exhibiting the qualities of a friendly neighbor. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Neighborly
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Neighborly
Literary usage of Neighborly
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters to the Joneses by Josiah Gilbert Holland (1868)
"coverer of this original neighborly instinct. ... Before I come to the treatment
of your case, I regard it as a neighborly duty to pay tribute to some of ..."
2. A Laconic Manual and Brief Remarker: Containing Over a Thousand Subjects by Charles Simmons (1852)
"NEIGHBORS, neighborly. Good fences make good neighbors ; bad, tempt both man and
beast. Ed. The way to have neighbors, is to be neighborly. ..."
3. The World's Wit and Humor: An Encyclopedia of the Classic Wit and Humor of by Lionel Strachey (1912)
"From neighborly Poems," copyright, 1897. A Old Played-Out Song IT'S the curiousest
thing in creation, Whenever I hear that old song "Do They Miss Me at Home ..."
4. Selections from Early American Writers, 1607-1800 by William B. Cairns (1909)
"A neighborly ADMONITION [From the "Diary" for 1701] Tuesday, June loth. Having last
night heard that Josiah Willard had cut off his hair (a very full head ..."
5. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"... and the neighborly talk has a cheery ring. Enter through the gate ajar and
sit down with the peasant family in the open court, if it is midsummer, ..."
6. The Beginnings of Modern Europe (1250-1450) by Ephraim Emerton (1917)
"students and scholars instruction in the Hebrew tongue. Further, the Jews who
live in our country shall lend us their books voluntarily and in neighborly ..."
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