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neighborhood
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Neighborhood \Neigh"bor*hood\, 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.
Usage: 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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