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–noun

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 inhabitants: a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood.

3.	a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality: The whole neighborhood was there.

4.	neighborly feeling or conduct.

5.	nearness; proximity: to sense the neighborhood of trouble.

6.	Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.

—Idiom

7.	in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about: She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.

[Origin: 1400–50; late ME neighborehode. See neighbor, -hood

]

—Synonyms 2. community, area, locale, vicinity.

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neigh·bor·hood Audio Help (nā'bər-hŏŏd') Pronunciation Key
n.

A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic neighborhood.
The people who live near one another or in a particular district or area: The noise upset the entire neighborhood.
The surrounding area; vicinity: happened to be in the neighborhood.
Informal Approximate amount or range: in the neighborhood of five million dollars.
Friendliness appropriate to a neighbor: a feeling of neighborhood.
Mathematics The set of points surrounding a specified point, each of which is within a certain, usually small distance from the specified point.

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neighborhood

1449, "neighborly conduct, friendliness," from neighbor + -hood (q.v.). Modern sense of "community of people who live close together" is first recorded 1625. Phrase in the neighborhood of meaning "near, somewhere about" is first recorded 1857, Amer.Eng. The O.E. word for "neighborhood" was neahdæl.

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neighborhood
noun
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]
2.	people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
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]
4.	an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); "an ethnic neighborhood"

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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.

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