neighbourhood

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Alternative forms

• neighborhood (US)

Etymology

neighbour +‎ -hood

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˈneɪbəhʊd/

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Noun

neighbourhood (plural neighbourhoods)

1. Close proximity, particularly in reference to home

   He lives in my neighbourhood.

2. and, by extension, its inhabitants

   The fire alarmed all the neighbourhood.

3. a division of a municipality or region, formally or informally divided
4. (archaic) The quality or condition of being a neighbour; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
   • 1667: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 399-402

     Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.

   • 1835: Lord Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes

     Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.

5. (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point; The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex
6. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbour; neighbourly kindness or good will.

Synonyms

• proximity
• vicinity

Related terms

• microneighbourhood

Translations

close proximity, particularly in reference to home

Arabic: جوار (ar) (jiwaar) m., قرب (ar) (qurb) m. Armenian: թաղ (hy) (t’aġ) Belarusian: ваколіцы (be) (vakólicy) f. pl. Chinese: Mandarin: 附近 (cmn) (fùjìn), 鄰里 (cmn), 邻里 (cmn) (línlǐ), 周圍 (cmn), 周围 (cmn) (zhōuwéi), 街坊 (cmn) (jiēfang) Czech: sousedství (cs) n. Dutch: buurt (nl) f., kwartier (nl) n., wijk (nl) Finnish: naapurusto (fi), lähiseutu (fi), kulmakunta (fi) French: voisinage (fr) m., environs (fr) m. pl., quartier (fr) m. German: Nachbarschaft (de) f., Umgebung (de) f. Hungarian: szomszédság (hu), szomszédok (hu) Icelandic: nágrenni (is) n. Italian: vicinato (it) m. Japanese: 近所 (ja) (きんじょ, kinjo), 近隣 (ja) (きんりん, kinrin), 周辺 (ja) (しゅうへん, shūhen) Korean: 근처 (ko) (geuncheo) Macedonian: соседство (mk) (sósedstvo) n., комшилук (mk) (kómšiluk) m. Norwegian: strøk (no)

Polish: sąsiedztwo (pl) n. Portuguese: vizinhança (pt) f., bairro (pt) m. Russian: соседство (ru) (sosédstvo) n., окрестности (ru) (okréstnosti) f. pl., близость (ru) (blízost') f., округа (ru) (okrúga) f. Scots: neibourheid Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: су́седство (sh) n. (Ekavian), су́сједство (sh) n. (Ijekavian) Roman: súsedstvo (sh) n. (Ekavian), súsjedstvo (sh) n. (Ijekavian) Spanish: vecindad (es) f., barrio (es) m., (Mexico) colonia (es), (Mexico, planned) fraccionamiento (es) Swahili: mtaa (sw) Swedish: grannskap (sv) c., kvarter (sv) c. Turkish: civar (tr), semt (tr), mahalle (tr) Ukrainian: сусідство (uk) (susídstvo) n., округа (uk) (okrúha) f., околиці (uk) (okólyci) f. pl. Volapük: niläd (vo)

inhabitants in the close proximity

Croatian: súsjedstvo (hr) n. Czech: sousedstvo (cs) n. Finnish: naapurusto (fi) Hungarian: környék (hu) Macedonian: соседи (mk) (sósedi) pl., комшии (mk) (kómšii) pl.

Russian: соседи (ru) (sosédi) m. pl. Scots: neibourheid Scottish Gaelic: coimhearsnachd (gd) f. Turkish: mahalleli (tr), konu komşu (tr) Volapük: nilädanef (vo)

archaic: quality or condition of being a neighbour

Finnish: naapuruus (fi)

Turkish: komşuluk (tr)

topology: set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point

Danish: omegn (da) c.

Finnish: lähiympäristö (fi)

obsolete: neighbourly kindness or good will

Finnish: naapurusto (fi) Scots: neibourheid

Swahili: mtaa (sw)

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Ottoman Turkish: mahala