GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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    Neighborhood , n. [Written also neighbourhood.]
    1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
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      Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
      Ld. Lytton.

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    2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
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    3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
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    4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.]
      Jer. Taylor.

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      Syn. -- 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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