neighborhood

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neighbor +‎ -hood

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neighborhood (countable and uncountable; plural neighborhoods)

  1. (obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other
    Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings
  2. A nearby area.
  3. The inhabitants of a residential area.
    The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
  4. A division of a municipality or region, formally or informally divided
    We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood
  5. An approximate amount.
    He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
  6. (uncountable) The quality of physical proximity.
    The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
  7. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
  8. (topology) The neighborhood of a point x is... (depending on the author):
    1. ...an open set which contains point x.
    2. ...a set containing an open set which contains point x.

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