neighborhood

[ ney-ber-hood ]

/ ˈneɪ bərˌhʊd /

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noun

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.

Origin of neighborhood

First recorded in 1400–50, neighborhood is from the late Middle English word neighborehode. See neighbor, -hood

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2. community, area, locale, vicinity.

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A car mechanic who goes by the name “Big Perm” said he noticed a change in the neighborhood.
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Somebody had hung an American flag and people of the neighborhood had placed bouquets and candles.
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That was standard operating procedure in the neighborhood at the time.
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Lynchburg is a six-month-old German sausage and ale house in the heart of Panama's San Francisco neighborhood.
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I was in your neighborhood, you must know, on a sketching tour.
I Say No|Wilkie Collins
The more I see of the house and its neighborhood the better I like it.
Old Times in Dixie Land|Caroline E. Merrick
By way of compensation, the one engrossing subject of conversation in the neighborhood was the dinner given at Goldfish Villa.
Paul and His Dog, v.2 (Novels of Paul de Kock Volume XIV)|Charles Paul de Kock
The younger branches of the families in that neighborhood, too, caught the spirit of their fathers and mothers.
Mike Marble|Uncle Frank
Their pistols were still useless; they did not know the geography of the neighborhood; there were enemies everywhere.
Chasing an Iron Horse|Edward Robins

Word Origin and History for neighborhood

neighborhood

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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