Some 16th-century Italian clergymen tried to ban coffee because they believed it to be âsatanic.â However, Pope Clement VII loved coffee so much that he lifted the ban and had coffee baptized in 1600.
NEIGHBORHOOD
neighborhood, neighbourhood
(noun) people living near one another; âit is a friendly neighborhoodâ; âmy neighborhood voted for Bushâ
vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods
(noun) a surrounding or nearby region; âthe plane crashed in the vicinity of Ashevilleâ; âit is a rugged localityâ; âhe always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhoodâ; âI will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woodsâ
neighborhood
(noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); âan ethnic neighborhoodâ
region, neighborhood
(noun) the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in âin the region ofâ); âit was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the jobâ; âthe price is in the neighborhood of $100â
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Etymology
Noun
neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods) (American spelling)
(chiefly, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.
The inhabitants of a residential area.
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
An approximate amount.
The quality of physical proximity.
(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
(topology) Within a topological space
A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
(topology) Within a metric space
A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
(topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
(graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
Synonyms
• vicinity
• proximity
• quarter
Source: Wiktionary
Neigh"bor*hood, n. Etym: [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.
– 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’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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