Category:Neighborhood

Neigh"bor*hood, n. Etym: [written also neighbourhood.]

1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being Or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton.

2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the Inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my Neighborhood.

3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the Fire alarmed all the neiborhood.

4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good Will. [obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Syn. -- vicinity; vicinaty; proximity. -- neighborhood, vicinity. Neigborhood is anglo-saxon, and vicinity Is latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as Neighborhood. A neigborhood 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.