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neighborhood |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Neighborhood \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: neighborhood n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinty of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality}, {neighbourhood}] 2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: {neighbourhood}] 3: 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" [syn: {region}]
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