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neigh⋅bor⋅hood

  [ney-ber-hood]
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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   (nā'bər-hŏŏd')   
n.  

  1. A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic neighborhood.

  2. The people who live near one another or in a particular district or area: The noise upset the entire neighborhood.

  3. The surrounding area; vicinity: happened to be in the neighborhood.

  4. Informal Approximate amount or range: in the neighborhood of five million dollars.

  5. Friendliness appropriate to a neighbor: a feeling of neighborhood.

  6. Mathematics The set of points surrounding a specified point, each of which is within a certain, usually small distance from the specified point.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Word Origin & History

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.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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