neighborhood

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   people living near one another

   it is a friendly neighborhood

2. 2
   noun

   an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)

   an ethnic neighborhood

3. 3
   noun

   The residential area near one's home.

   He lives in my neighborhood.

4. 4
   noun

   The inhabitants of a residential area.

   The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

5. 5
   noun

   A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

   We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

6. 6
   noun

   An approximate amount.

   He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

7. 7
   noun

   The quality of physical proximity.

   The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

8. 8
   noun

   The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.

   Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.

Etymology

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood. Cognates Cognate with Scots nichbourheid (“neighbourhood”). Compare also Dutch naburigheid (“neighbourhood”).