neighborhood

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic neighborhood.
2. n. The people who live near one another or in a particular district or area: The noise upset the entire neighborhood.
3. n. The surrounding area; vicinity: happened to be in the neighborhood.
4. n. Informal Approximate amount or range: in the neighborhood of five million dollars.
5. n. Friendliness appropriate to a neighbor: a feeling of neighborhood.
6. n. Mathematics The set of points surrounding a specified point, each of which is within a certain, usually small distance from the specified point.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The condition or quality of being neighbors; the state of dwelling or being situated nigh or near; proximity; nearness: as, neighborhood often promotes friendship.
2. n. Conduct as a neighbor.
3. n. The kindliness and mutual readiness to be friendly which arise out of the condition of being neighbors; the reciprocity and mutual helpfulness becoming to neighbors; neighborly feelings and acts.
4. n. The place or locality lying next or nigh to some specified place; adjoining district; vicinity: as he lived in my neighborhood: frequently used figuratively.
5. n. Those living in the vicinity or adjoining locality; neighbors collectively; as, thė fire alarmed the whole neighborhood.
6. n. A district or locality, especially when considered with reference to its inhabitants or their interests: as, a fashionable neighborhood; a malarious neighborhood.
7. n. Synonyms and Neighborhood, Vicinity, Proximity. The first two differ from proximity in being used concretely: as, the explosion was heard throughout the neighborhood or vicinity (but not proximity). Neighborhood is closer and livelier than vicinity; proximity is the closest nearness. Neighborhood regards not only place, but persons; vicinity only the place; hence we say he lived in the vicinity of New York or the Hudson, but he lived in the neighborhood of Irving; his house was in close proximity to the one that was on fire. See adjacent.
8. n. In mathematics, the part of a line, surface, space, or other locus in quo so near to a correlative point that from its utmost parts to that point it has everywhere a certain given character with respect to which it is the neighborhood of that point. Thus, to say that the air is condensed in the neighborhood of a certain point, is to say that after one has approached it sufficiently near, the nearer one approaches the more condensed is the air up to the point itself.

Wiktionary

1. n. obsolete The quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other
2. n. A nearby area.
3. n. The inhabitants of a residential area.
4. n. A division of a municipality or region, formally or informally divided
5. n. An approximate amount.
6. n. uncountable The quality of physical proximity.
7. n. obsolete The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
8. n. topology The neighborhood of a point x is... (depending on the author):

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
2. n. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors.
3. n. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other.
4. n. obsolete The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a surrounding or nearby region
2. n. the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
3. n. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
4. n. people living near one another