neighborhood

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neighbor +‎ -hood

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Singular
neighborhood

Plural
countable and uncountable; plural neighborhoods

neighborhood (countable and uncountable; plural neighborhoods)

  1. (literally) The quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other
    Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings
  2. The nearby area, particularly when referring to home.
    We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood
  3. and by extension, it's inhabitants.
    The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
  4. (uncountable) The quality of physical proximity.
    The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
  5. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
  6. (topology) The neighborhood of a point x is a set containing an open set which contains point x.

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