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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.
–
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.

Definition 2024

neighborhood

neighborhood

English

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Noun

neighborhood ‎(countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods)

  1. (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
    Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
    • 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 399-402:
      Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.
    • 1835, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes:
      Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.
  2. Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.
    He lives in my neighborhood.
  3. The inhabitants of a residential area.
    The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
  4. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
    We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
  5. An approximate amount.
    He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
  6. The quality of physical proximity.
    The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
  7. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
  8. (topology) An open set which contains the point in question.
  9. (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
  10. (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
  11. (topology) A set containing an open set which contains point in question.

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Etymology

From an alteration of earlier neighborred ‎(“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor +‎ -red; the alteration being interpreted as though from neighbor +‎ -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.

Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈneɪbə(ɹ)hʊd/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/

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