neighbourhood

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neighbourhood or (US) neighborhood (ˈneɪbəˌhʊd)

—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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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a fool or simpleton; ninny.

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neighbourhood

British spelling of neighborhood (q.v.); for suffix, see -or.

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"Everything in the neighbourhood of this city exhibits the appearance of life and cheerfulness. The purity of the air, the brilliancy of the unspotted heavens, the crowd of moving vessels, shooting in various directions, up and down and across the bay and the far- stretching Hudson, and the forest of masts crowded round the quays and wharfs at the entrance of the East River. There is something in all this—in the very air you breathe, and the fair and moving scene that you rest your eye upon—which exhilarates the spirits and makes you in good humour with life and your fellow creatures. We approached these shores under a fervid sun, but the air, though of a higher temperature than I had ever before experienced, was so entirely free of vapor, that I thought it was for the first time in my life that I had drawn a clear breath."

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