01 n. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
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The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.“Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood.” — Ld. Lytton.
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A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
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The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
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The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.[Obs.]
Syn.
Vicinity; vicinage; proximity.
-- Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square.