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The residential area near one's home.UScountableuncountable
- He lives in my neighborhood.
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The inhabitants of a residential area.UScollectivecountable
- The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
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A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.UScountableuncountable
- We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
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An approximate amount.UScountableuncountable
- He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
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The quality of physical proximity.UScountableuncountable
- The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
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The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.UScountableobsolete
- Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
- 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245, […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]
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Close proximity; nearness.UScountabledated
- At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood.
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The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.UScountableobsolete
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Within a topological space:; A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.UScountableuncountable
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Within a topological space:; Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.UScountableuncountable
syn. neighborship · vicinity · proximity · quarter