Thesaurus: neighborhood

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1. n. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
2. n. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
3. n. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
4. n. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
5. n. a surrounding or nearby region
6. n. people living near one another
7. n. the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
8. n. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
9. 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. -- 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.
10. n:100 n. people living near one another n. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)