neighborhood

• neighbourhood (UK)

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor +‎ -red; the alteration being interpreted as though from neighbor +‎ -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/

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neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods)

1. (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.

   Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245,

     […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act V, Scene 2,

     Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up

     Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms

     Of France and England, whose very shores look pale

     With envy of each other’s happiness,

     May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction

     Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord

     In their sweet bosoms […]

   • 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, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes:

     Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.

2. Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.

   He lives in my neighborhood.

3. The inhabitants of a residential area.

   The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

4. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

   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. 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) Within a topological space:
   1. A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
   2. Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
9. (topology) Within a metric space:
   1. A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
   2. Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
10. (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
11. (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

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