neighborhood

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A particular area of a town or city, and the people who live there.

   I grew up in a friendly neighborhood near the river.

2. 2
   noun

   An amount or number that is close to but not exactly a particular figure.

   The repairs will cost in the neighborhood of $500.

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”).

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