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| friendship |
When you have a friendship with the girl next door, it means that you and she are friends. You like each other and do things together. |
| happen |
When you happen to do something, you do it just by chance or by luck. If you happen to live next door to your best friend, it is only by chance that the two of you live next door. It wasn't planned by anyone. [1/3 definitions] |
| next door |
When something is next door, it is in the house or building or apartment that is next to yours. When you talk about the people who live next door, you mean the neighbors who live in the place next to you. When you go next door, you go to that place. |
| no longer |
If something is no longer happening, it is not happening anymore. It has stopped. If you are no longer friends with the kids next door, you are not friends with them anymore. If your clock is working no longer, it doesn't work anymore. |
| phrase |
A phrase is a group of words that have a meaning together. Phrases are not sentences, though. Phrases are like building blocks that we can put together to make sentences. Things like "in the kitchen" and "the boy next door" are phrases. [1/5 definitions] |
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