neighborhood

noun neighborhoods · neighbourhood

1. US, countable, uncountable The residential area near one's home. He lives in my neighborhood.
2. US, collective, countable, uncountable The inhabitants of a residential area. The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
3. US, countable, uncountable A formal or informal division of a municipality or region. We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
4. US, countable, uncountable An approximate amount. He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
5. US, countable, uncountable The quality of physical proximity. The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
6. US, countable, obsolete, uncountable The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity. Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
7. US, countable, dated, uncountable Close proximity; nearness. At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood.
8. US, countable, obsolete, uncountable The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
9. US, countable, uncountable A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
10. US, countable, uncountable Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
11. US, countable, uncountable A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
12. US, countable, uncountable Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
13. US, countable, uncountable The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
14. US, countable, uncountable The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
15. US, countable, uncountable The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation. In fact, it looks at the number of states and the neighborhood of the rule (determined by the filename), and decides whether to make it a lookup-table, or a "computed-function" rule.

Similar: neighborship, vicinity, proximity, quarter