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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

NEIGHBORHOOD, n.
1. A place near; vicinity; the adjoining district or any place not distant. He lives in my neighborhood.
2. State of being near each other; as several states in a neighborhood.
3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other. The fire alarmed all the neighborhood.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: neighborhood, 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, neighborhood]
4: an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); "an ethnic neighborhood"

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 15th century 1. neighborly relationship 2. the quality or state of being neighbors ; proximity 3. a. a place or region near ; vicinity b. an approximate amount, extent, or degree <cost in the neighborhood of $100> 4. a. the people living near one another b. a section lived in by neighbors and usually having distinguishing characteristics 5. the set of all points belonging to a given set whose distances from a given point are less than a given positive number; broadly a set that contains a neighborhood

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Vicinity, vicinage. 2. Neighbors. 3. District, locality. 4. Nearness, propinquity.

Moby Thesaurus

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