neighborhood
1Neighborhood — Neigh bor*hood, n. [Written also neighbourhood.] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. [1913 Webster] Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster] …
2neighborhood — [nā′bər hood΄] n. 1. Archaic friendly relations, as of neighbors; neighborliness 2. the state or quality of being neighbors 3. a community, district, or area, esp. with regard to some characteristic or point of reference [an old neighborhood] 4.… …
3neighborhood — (n.) mid 15c., neighborly conduct, friendliness, from NEIGHBOR (Cf. neighbor) (n.) + HOOD (Cf. hood). Modern sense of community of people who live close together is first recorded 1620s. Phrase in the neighborhood of meaning near, somewhere about …
4neighborhood — index civic, community, district, local, locality, location, region, regional, section ( …
5neighborhood — (Amer.) neigh·bor·hood || neɪbÉ™rhÊŠd n. group of houses which make up a distinct region; local area, surroundings (also neighbourhood) …
6neighborhood — *locality, district, vicinity …
7neighborhood — [n] community, surroundings adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, nearness, neck of the woods*, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter,… …
8neighborhood — /nay beuhr hood /, n. 1. 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. 2. a district or locality, often with reference to its character or… …
9neighborhood — neigh|bor|hood [ neıbər,hud ] noun count *** 1. ) a particular area of a city or town: a poor/middle class/wealthy neighborhood a Chinese/Italian neighborhood a ) the people who live near each other: The whole neighborhood gets together for a… …
10neighborhood — n. AE; AE spelling: neighborhood 1) a bad ( unsafe ); changing; friendly; good, nice, pleasant neighborhood 2) an ethnic; residential neighborhood 3) in a neighborhood (we live in a nice neighborhood) …
