Neighborhood Definition & Meaning

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Neighborhood

Neighborhood Definition And Meaning
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.

Neighborhood Definition And Meaning

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"

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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