About The Word Neighborhood
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Neighborhood
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What's The Definition Of Neighborhood?
[n] 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"
[n] people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [n] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Neighborhood: locality | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | region | vicinity Related Terms | Find terms related to 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 See Also | community | indefinite quantity | Latin Quarter | Left Bank | Montmartre | place | proximity | Right Bank | scenery | section | street Neighborhood In Webster's Dictionary \Neigh"bor*hood\, n. [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; vicinaty; proximity.
Usage: {Neighborhood}, {Vicinity}. Neigborhood is
Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not
commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood.
A neigborhood 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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