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Neighborly

Neighborly \Neigh"bor*ly\, a. [Also written neighbourly.] Appropriate to the relation of neighbors; having frequent or familiar intercourse; kind; civil; social; friendly. -- adv. In a neighborly manner.

Judge if this be neighborly dealing.
--Arbuthnot.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
neighborly

1550s, from neighbor (n.) + -ly (1). Earlier as an adverb (1520s), while an earlier adjective form was neighborlike (late 15c.). Related: Neighborliness, which ousted earlier neighborship (mid-15c.).

Wiktionary
neighborly

a. (standard spelling of neighbourly from=American spelling English)

WordNet
neighborly

adj. exhibiting the qualities expected in a friendly neighbor [syn: neighbourly]

Wikipedia
Neighborly

Neighborly is a San Francisco-based online investment platform that allows individuals to invest in civic projects through municipal bonds. Company began as a donation-based civic crowdfunding platform for civic projects. Neighborly has since evolved toward becoming an investing platform. Neighborly provides publicly available finance information on its website and sells municipal securities through its affiliated registered broker-dealer, Neighborly Securities.

Usage examples of "neighborly".

Wanting to be neighborly, Slim planned to whip up a chocolate cake from one of his box mixes and carry it across the overgrown field that stretched between her place and his.

How intimately filial to the earth and neighborly the middle-west pioneers were has been suggested.

And these scenes but illustrate the rough races to the gold-fields and the iron mountains and the oil-wells, in eagerness to seize whatever earth had to offer and turn it to immediate wealth--rough, restless precursors, producers, poets eager for to-day, yet coming by and by, as we have seen, to be ready to spend for to-morrow, building schools and universities, enlarging the field of public provision and service, and filling the land, once neighborly, individualistic, with institutions of philanthropy.

He breathed deeply of greenery-spiced air sweetened with the fragrance of the wildflowers which nodded in a neighborly fashion as the boat passed.

She reminded herself it was only neighborly to keep an open mind, but she was still glad she had the checkout desk between them.

Neighborly tension, on the other hand, is a great loosener of tongues.