neighborhood

Plural: neighborhoods

Noun

• a surrounding or nearby region
  • "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
• people living near one another
  • "it is a friendly neighborhood"
  • "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
• the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
  • "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"
• an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
  • "an ethnic neighborhood"
• The residential area near one's home.
• The inhabitants of a residential area.
• A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
• An approximate amount.
• The quality of physical proximity.
• The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.
• Close proximity; nearness.
• The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
• Within a topological space:
• A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
• Within a topological space:
• Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
• Within a metric space:
• A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
• Within a metric space:
• Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
• The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
• The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
• The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
• The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.

Examples

• He lives in my neighborhood.
• He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
• Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
• The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
• The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
• We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

Synonyms

locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, region, vicinity, proximity, quarter

Related Words

neighborship