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Webster 1913 Edition
Neighborhood
Neigh′bor-hood
,Noun.
[Written also
neighbourhood
.] 1.
The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
Then the prison and the palace were in awful
neighborhood
. Ld. Lytton.
2.
A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors;
as, he lives in my
. neighborhood
3.
The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other;
as, the fire alarmed all the
. neiborhood
4.
The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
[Obs.]
Jer. Taylor.
Syn. – Vicinity; vicinage; proximity.
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Neighborhood
, Vicinity
. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square. Webster 1828 Edition
Neighborhood
NEIGHBORHOOD
,Noun.
1.
A place near; vicinity; the adjoining district or any place not distant. He lives in my neighborhood.2.
State of being near each other; as several states in a neighborhood.3.
The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other. The fire alarmed all the neighborhood.