neighborhood

Meaning

Noun

• The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
• Close proximity; nearness.
• 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 disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
• Within a topological space:
• Within a metric space:
• 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.

Related

Similar words

• vicinity
• proximity
• quarter

Origin

• From an alteration of earlier neighborred, from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the alteration being interpreted as though from neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.
• Dutch nabijheid (common in modern language), Dutch naburigheid (uncommon in modern language).