neighborhood
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bərˌhʊd 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.
7.
in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about: She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.
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neighbourhood or (US) neighborhood (ˈneɪbəˌhʊd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinityRelated: vicinal |
| 2. | a district where people live |
| 3. | the people in a particular area; neighbours |
| 4. | neighbourly feeling |
| 5. | maths the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than a specified value |
| 6. | (modifier) of or for a neighbourhood: a neighbourhood community worker |
| 7. | in the neighbourhood of approximately (a given number) |
| Related: vicinal | |
| neighborhood or (US) neighborhood | |
| —n | |
| Related: vicinal | |
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Word Origin & History
neighborhood
mid-15c., "neighborly conduct, friendliness," from neighbor + -hood (q.v.). 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, Amer.Eng. The O.E. word for "neighborhood" was neahdæl.
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Help celebrate geography worldwide by planning events in your own community, school, or neighborhood.
They hand neighborhood residents other, pocket-sized video cameras to record their own stories.
They emerged without a scratch in a neighborhood where five people died.
But to the people who live there, it's home, their neighborhood.
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