neighborhood

1. n. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Source: opted

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. Source: opted

3. n. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood. Source: opted

4. n. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. Source: opted

5. n. a surrounding or nearby region Source: wordnet

6. n. people living near one another Source: wordnet

7. n. the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’) Source: wordnet

8. n. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) Source: wordnet

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. Source: webster

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) Source: ecdict

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