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Neighborhood

//ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The residential area near one's home. US, countable, uncountable

    "He lives in my neighborhood."

  2. 2
    people living near one another wordnet
  3. 3
    The inhabitants of a residential area. US, countable, uncountable

    "The fire alarmed the neighborhood."

  4. 4
    a surrounding or nearby region wordnet
  5. 5
    A formal or informal division of a municipality or region. US, countable, uncountable

    "We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood."

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  1. 6
    an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) wordnet
  2. 7
    An approximate amount. US, countable, uncountable

    "He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year."

  3. 8
    the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’) wordnet
  4. 9
    The quality of physical proximity. US, countable, uncountable

    "The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood."

  5. 10
    The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity. US, countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings."

  6. 11
    Close proximity; nearness. US, countable, dated, uncountable

    "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."

  7. 12
    The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. US, countable, obsolete, uncountable
  8. 13
    Within a topological space:; A set containing an open set which contains some specified point. US, countable, uncountable
  9. 14
    Within a topological space:; Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point. US, countable, uncountable
  10. 15
    Within a metric space:; A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point. US, countable, uncountable
  11. 16
    Within a metric space:; Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point. US, countable, uncountable
  12. 17
    The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point. US, countable, uncountable
  13. 18
    The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex. US, countable, uncountable
  14. 19
    The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.; The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation. US, countable, uncountable

    "In fact, it looks at the number of states and the neighborhood of the rule (determined by the filename), and decides whether to make it a lookup-table, or a "computed-function" rule."

Etymology

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood. Cognates Cognate with Scots nichbourheid (“neighbourhood”). Compare also Dutch naburigheid (“neighbourhood”).

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