NEIGHBOURLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does neighbourly mean? 

• NEIGHBOURLY (adjective)
  The adjective NEIGHBOURLY has 1 sense:

1. exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor

  Familiarity information: NEIGHBOURLY used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• NEIGHBOURLY (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor

Synonyms:

neighborly; neighbourly

Similar:

friendly (characteristic of or befitting a friend)

Derivation:

neighbour (a person who lives (or is located) near another)

neighbourliness (a disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors)

 Context examples 

Well, said the butcher, I don’t like to say no, when one is asked to do a kind, neighbourly thing.

(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)

Just beyond it is a nice little grove of Scotch firs, and I used to be very fond of strolling down there, for trees are always a neighbourly kind of things.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The return of Henry Crawford, and the arrival of William Price, had much to do with it, but much was still owing to Sir Thomas's more than toleration of the neighbourly attempts at the Parsonage.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

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, by Jane Austen)