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noun

Neighborhood n.

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."

A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.

The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. (Obs.)

Synonyms: Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. 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.

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Etymology of 'Neighborhood'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Neighborhood" Quotes from Famous Books

... he, 'by Allah, there are men in the neighborhood who have felt our Ali's heel, and who would not scruple to wreak vengeance if his back were altogether turned. Convey him my respectful homage, and bid him look to his rear,' ...

— The Lion of Petra • Talbot Mundy

... through my brain and my reasoning. He cannot make a revelation to another man for me. That other man will have God's word for it but I will only have that man's word for it. As that man has been dead for several thousand years, and as I don't know what his reputation was for truth and veracity in the neighborhood in which he lived, I will wait for the Lord to ...

— Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll - Latest • Robert Green Ingersoll

... he had faithfully vowed to do. But even this terrible thought was swallowed up in the fear that some accident had happened to him. He haunted the house for an hour, filling up the intervals of fruitless inquiry with little random walks round the neighborhood, determined not to return home to his wife without news of their child. The restless life of the great twinkling streets was almost a novelty to him; it was rarely his perambulations in London extended outside the Ghetto, and the radius of his life was ...

— Children of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... dream is a wish of fulfillment. The next day she brought me a dream to the effect that she was traveling with her mother-in-law to their common summer resort. Now I knew that she had struggled violently against spending the summer in the neighborhood of her mother-in-law. I also knew that she had luckily avoided her mother-in-law by renting an estate in a far-distant country resort. Now the dream reversed this wished-for solution; was not this in the flattest contradiction to my theory of wish-fulfillment ...

— Dream Psychology - Psychoanalysis for Beginners • Sigmund Freud

... generally in tailoring or secondhand furniture and clothing, while the Raffertys, O'Flanagans and McDougalls dispensed liquor. All the most desirable sites were occupied by saloons, for it was practically impossible to quench the thirst of the neighborhood, though many were engaged in a valiant effort to do so. There were also in evidence, barbers, joiners, plumbers, grocers, fruit-sellers, bakers and venders of small wares, and there was the largest and most splendidly recruited army of do-nothings ...

— The Girl and the Kingdom - Learning to Teach • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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