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/nˈeɪbərhˌʊd/ Listen

noun

Neighborhood n.

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."

A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.

The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. (Obs.)

Synonyms: 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.

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Etymology of 'Neighborhood'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... filled the land, and the princes of his family were ever urging him to found a monastery whose monks, they hoped, would reflect his virtues and increase the faith and piety of their clan. This seemed the very spot for such an establishment. The neighborhood of the royal fortress ...

— Donahoe's Magazine, Volume 15, No. 2, February 1886 • Various

... far the speakers were from the house. It seemed to him that they were somewhere in the neighborhood of the rancher's private stable. But he could not ...

— The Night Riders - A Romance of Early Montana • Ridgwell Cullum

... can I get away?' So, as was her usual custom, she 'told God she was afraid to go in the night, and in the day every body would see her.' At length, the thought came to her that she could leave just before the day dawned, and get out of the neighborhood where she was known before the people were much astir. 'Yes,' said she, fervently, 'that's a good thought! Thank you, God, for that thought!' So, receiving it as coming direct from God, she acted upon it, and one fine morning, a little before day-break, she might ...

— The Narrative of Sojourner Truth • Sojourner Truth

... [CHENG Yiu-tong, executive councilor]; Hong Kong Alliance in Support of the Patriotic Democratic Movement in China [Szeto WAH, chairman]; Hong Kong and Kowloon Trade Union Council (pro-Taiwan); Hong Kong General Chamber of Commerce; Hong Kong Professional Teachers' Union [CHEUNG Man-kwong, president]; Neighborhood and Workers' Service Center or NWSC (pro-democracy); The Alliance ...

— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... probably found enough to eat without waiting for little girls to fall into his clutches. As he had never been known to trouble any one in the neighborhood, it was reasonable to believe that he got all he wanted without venturing away from the depths of the woods, and rousing an ill-will against himself that would speedily result in ...

— Through Forest and Fire - Wild-Woods Series No. 1 • Edward Ellis

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