neighborhood
[ney-ber-hoo d]
- the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
- a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants: a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood.
- a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality: The whole neighborhood was there.
- neighborly feeling or conduct.
- nearness; proximity: to sense the neighborhood of trouble.
- Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.
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- in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about: She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.
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Origin of neighborhood
Synonyms
See more synonyms for neighborhood on Thesaurus.com2. community, area, locale, vicinity.
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Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018
Examples from the Web for neighborhood
Contemporary Examples
A car mechanic who goes by the name “Big Perm” said he noticed a change in the neighborhood.
Does all this mean that a robo-Jurassic Park is coming soon to a neighborhood near you?
Somebody had hung an American flag and people of the neighborhood had placed bouquets and candles.
That was standard operating procedure in the neighborhood at the time.
Lynchburg is a six-month-old German sausage and ale house in the heart of Panama's San Francisco neighborhood.
Historical Examples
Like everything else in that neighborhood, it was covered with picture writing.
Ancient ManHendrik Willem van Loon
I worried along, however, to get out of that neighborhood as soon as possible.
Biography of a SlaveCharles Thompson
What if it should be in this neighborhood, among these surroundings?
Ester Ried Yet SpeakingIsabella Alden
Then I hope you will be careful what houses you go into, for I hear the small-pox is in the neighborhood.
Weighed and WantingGeorge MacDonald
But Joe's affair with Sidney had been the talk of the neighborhood.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
Word Origin and History for neighborhood
n.
mid-15c., "neighborly conduct, friendliness," from neighbor (n.) + -hood. Modern sense of "community of people who live close together" is first recorded 1620s. Phrase in the neighborhood of meaning "near, somewhere about" is first recorded 1857, American English. The Old English word for "neighborhood" was neahdæl.
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Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper