'Neighborhood' definitions:
Definition of 'neighborhood'
(from WordNet)
noun
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, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
noun
People living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: neighborhood, neighbourhood]
noun
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, neighborhood]
noun
An area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); "an ethnic neighborhood"
Definition of 'Neighborhood'
From: GCIDE
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. --Ld. Lytton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood. [1913 Webster]
- 3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.] --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Vicinity; vicinage; proximity.
- Usage: Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood 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. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'neighborhood'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airspace,
- alentours,
- ambience,
- ambit,
- approach,
- approximation,
- area,
- belt,
- borderlands,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circumambiencies,
- circumjacencies,
- circumstances,
- closeness,
- compass,
- confines,
- context,
- continental shelf,
- convergence,
- corridor,
- country,
- department,
- district,
- division,
- entourage,
- environing circumstances,
- environment,
- environs,
- extent,
- foreground,
- gestalt,
- ground,
- habitat,
- heartland,
- hinterland,
- immediacy,
- immediate foreground,
- land,
- magnitude,
- matter,
- milieu,
- nearness,
- nighness,
- offshore rights,
- outposts,
- outskirts,
- part,
- parts,
- perimeter,
- periphery,
- place,
- precinct,
- precincts,
- premises,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- purlieus,
- quarter,
- range,
- region,
- salient,
- section,
- situation,
- soil,
- space,
- suburbs,
- surroundings,
- terrain,
- territory,
- three-mile limit,
- total environment,
- tune,
- twelve-mile limit,
- vicinage,
- vicinity,
- zone