neighborhood

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English

Alternative forms

• neighbourhood (UK)

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/

Noun

neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods) (American spelling)

1. The residential area near one's home.

2. The inhabitants of a residential area.

3. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

4. An approximate amount.

5. The quality of physical proximity.

6. (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.

   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,^[1]

     […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]
7. (dated) Close proximity; nearness.
8. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
9. (topology) Within a topological space:
   1. A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
   2. Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
10. (topology) Within a metric space:
    1. A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
    2. Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
11. (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
12. (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
    1. (cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.

Synonyms

• vicinity
• proximity
• quarter

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See also

• neighborship
• neighborhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia