Neighborhood

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Neighborhood \Neigh"bor*hood\, n. [Written also neighbourhood.]
     1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of
        being or dwelling near; proximity.
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              Then the prison and the palace were in awful


              neighborhood.                         --Ld. Lytton.
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     2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the
        inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he
        lives in my neighborhood.
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     3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other;
        as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
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     4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness
        or good will. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor.
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     Syn: Vicinity; vicinage; proximity.
  
     Usage: {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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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  neighborhood
       n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the
            vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he
            always blames someone else in the immediate
            neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am
            in this neck of the woods" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality},
             {neighbourhood}, {neck of the woods}]
       2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly
          neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: {neighbourhood}]
       3: the approximate amount of something (usually used
          prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going
          to take in the region of two or three months to finish the
          job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100" [syn: {region}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  77 Moby Thesaurus words for "neighborhood":
     airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation,
     area, belt, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies,
     circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines,
     context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country,
     department, district, division, entourage,
     environing circumstances, environment, environs, extent,
     foreground, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland,
     immediacy, immediate foreground, land, magnitude, matter, milieu,
     nearness, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part,
     parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises,
     propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, range, region, salient,
     section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain,
     territory, three-mile limit, total environment, tune,
     twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, zone