NEIGHBORHOOD

neighborhood, neighbourhood

(noun) people living near one another; “it is a friendly neighborhood”; “my neighborhood voted for Bush”

vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods

(noun) 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”; “I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods”

neighborhood

(noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); “an ethnic neighborhood”

region, neighborhood

(noun) 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”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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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

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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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