Neighbourhood
WordNet
noun
(1) People living near one another
"It is a friendly neighborhood"
"My neighborhood voted for Bush"
(2) 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"
WiktionaryText
Noun
- Close proximity, particularly in reference to home
- He lives in my neighbourhood.
- and, by extension, it's inhabitants
- The fire alarmed all the neighbourhood.
- The quality or condition of being a neighbour; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
- 1667: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 399-402
- Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.
- Year?: Lord Lytton, Name of the work?
- Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.
- 1667: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 399-402
- The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point; The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex
- The disposition becoming a neighbour; neighbourly kindness or good will.