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neighbor + -hood
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neighborhood (countable and uncountable; plural neighborhoods)
- (literally) The quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other
- Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings
- The nearby area, particularly when referring to home.
- We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood
- and by extension, it's inhabitants.
- The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
- (uncountable) The quality of physical proximity.
- The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
- (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
- (topology) The neighborhood of a point x is a set containing an open set which contains point x.
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the quality of being a neighbor
close proximity, particularly in reference to home
- Arabic: جوار ar(ar) (jiwaar) m., قرب ar(ar) (qurb) m.
- Armenian: թաղ hy(hy) (t’aġ)
- Belarusian: ваколіцы be(be) (vakólicy) f. pl.
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 附近 cmn(cmn) (fùjìn), 鄰里 cmn(cmn), 邻里 cmn(cmn) (línlǐ), 周圍 cmn(cmn), 周围 cmn(cmn) (zhōuwéi), 街坊 cmn(cmn) (jiēfang)
- Czech: sousedství cs(cs) n.
- Dutch: buurt nl(nl) f., kwartier nl(nl) n., wijk nl(nl)
- Finnish: naapurusto fi(fi), lähiseutu fi(fi), kulmakunta fi(fi)
- French: voisinage fr(fr) m., environs fr(fr) m. pl., quartier fr(fr) m.
- German: Nachbarschaft de(de) f., Umgebung de(de) f.
- Greek: γειτονιά el(el) (gitoniá) f.
- Hungarian: szomszédság hu(hu), szomszédok hu(hu)
- Icelandic: nágrenni is(is) n.
- Italian: vicinato it(it) m.
- Japanese: 近所 ja(ja) (きんじょ, kinjo), 近隣 ja(ja) (きんりん, kinrin), 周辺 ja(ja) (しゅうへん, shūhen)
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- Korean: 근처 ko(ko) (geuncheo)
- Macedonian: соседство mk(mk) (sósedstvo) n., комшилук mk(mk) (kómšiluk) m.
- Polish: sąsiedztwo pl(pl) n.
- Portuguese: vizinhança pt(pt) f.
- Russian: соседство ru(ru) (sosédstvo) n., окрестности ru(ru) (okréstnosti) f. pl., близость ru(ru) (blízost') f., округа ru(ru) (okrúga) f.
- Scots: neibourheid
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: су́седство n. (Ekavian), су́сједство n. (Ijekavian)
- Roman: súsedstvo n. (Ekavian), súsjedstvo n. (Ijekavian)
- Spanish: vecindad es(es) f., barrio es(es) m.
- Swahili: mtaa sw(sw)
- Swedish: grannskap sv(sv) c.
- Turkish: civar tr(tr), semt tr(tr), mahalle tr(tr)
- Ukrainian: сусідство uk(uk) (susídstvo) n., округа uk(uk) (okrúha) f., околиці uk(uk) (okólyci) f. pl.
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people who live in vicinity of each other
- Dutch: buurt(gemeenschap)
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quality of physical proximity
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