neighborhood

Meaning

1. (US, countable, uncountable) The residential area near one's home.
2. (US, countable, uncountable) The inhabitants of a residential area.
3. (US, countable, uncountable) A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
4. (US, countable, uncountable) An approximate amount.
5. (US, countable, uncountable) The quality of physical proximity.
6. (US, countable, obsolete, uncountable) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.
7. (US, countable, dated, uncountable) Close proximity; nearness.
8. (US, countable, obsolete, uncountable) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
9. (US, countable, uncountable) Within a topological space:
10. (US, countable, uncountable) Within a topological space:
11. (US, countable, uncountable) Within a metric space:
12. (US, countable, uncountable) Within a metric space:
13. (US, countable, uncountable) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
14. (US, countable, uncountable) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
15. (US, countable, uncountable) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

Synonyms

neighbourhood

vicinity

area

neighbourhood

district

quarter

environs

surroundings

locality

proximity

environment

block

vicinage

adjacency

purlieu

neighbor

surrounding area

region

city block

neck of the woods

surrounding

place

town

🏙️

outskirt

borough

suburb

near

nearby

ward

nearness

barrio

atmosphere

residential area

street

success

ambience

ambiance

village

zone

a part a town

reaching the mark

taking a shortcut

community

adjacent

local area

neighbor group

’hood

circumjacency

close

city district

Translations

Nachbarschaft

voisinage

quartier

vizinhança

Umgebung

vicinato

environs

γειτονιά

bairro

barrio

nabuurschap

buurt

civar

Nähe

quartiere

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈneɪbə.hʊd/

Etymology

Cognate with Dutch: nabijheid

Cognate with Dutch: naburigheid

In summary

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”).

Sentences

Many villages also have a Neighborhood Watch program in force .

The Golden Triangle is not a neighborhood as defined by the city of Denver .

These routes runs between Pentagon City Station and the neighborhood of Arlington Mill .