neighborhood Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a surrounding or nearby region
    neck of the woods; vicinity; neighbourhood; locality.
    • the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
    • it is a rugged locality
    • he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
    • I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
  2. noun people living near one another
    neighbourhood.
    • it is a friendly neighborhood
    • my neighborhood voted for Bush
  3. noun the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
    region.
    • it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
    • the price is in the neighborhood of $100
  4. noun an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
    • an ethnic neighborhood

WordNet

Neigh"bor*hood noun
Etymology
Written also neighbourhood.
Definitions
  1. 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.
  2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
  3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
  4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. Obs. Jer. Taylor. Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinaty; proximity. -- Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neigborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neigborhood 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.

Webster 1913