Definition of "neighborhood" in English

noun

1. The residential area near one's home.

   • He lives in my neighborhood.

2. The inhabitants of a residential area.

   • The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

3. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

   • We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

4. An approximate amount.

   • He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

5. The quality of physical proximity.

   • The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

6. (chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.

   • Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245, […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]

7. (dated) Close proximity; nearness.

8. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

9. (topology) Within a topological space:

10. (topology) Within a metric space:

11. (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.

12. (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.