Crossword clues for neighborhood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Neighborhood \Neigh"bor*hood\, n. [Written also neighbourhood.]
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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. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
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The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.]
--Jer. Taylor.Syn: Vicinity; vicinage; proximity.
Usage: Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., "neighborly conduct, friendliness," from neighbor (n.) + -hood. Modern sense of "community of people who live close together" is first recorded 1620s. Phrase in the neighborhood of meaning "near, somewhere about" is first recorded 1857, American English. The Old English word for "neighborhood" was neahdæl.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context chiefly obsolete English) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity. 2 Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home. 3 The inhabitants of a residential area. 4 A formal or informal division of a municipality or region. 5 An approximate amount. 6 The quality of physical proximity. 7 (context obsolete English) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. 8 (context topology English) An open set which contains the point in question. 9 (context topology English) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point. 10 (label en graph theory) The set of all the vertex adjacent to a given vertex. 11 (context topology English) A set containing an open set which contains point in question.
WordNet
n. a surrounding or nearby region; "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" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: neighbourhood]
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "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" [syn: region]
Wikipedia
Neighborhood is a role-playing game published by Wheaton Publications in 1982.
Usage examples of "neighborhood".
The household was abustle, and Matt had informed her that she had somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour to get breakfast prepared and the boys off to school.
Neighborhood cops complain that acidheads throw themselves in front of moving cars, strip naked in grocery stores and run through plate-glass windows.
Southern Baptist Alabamans, branched out to the predominantly black neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
Etearchus, an Ammonian king who lived in the neighborhood of modern Derna.
In the reign of the emperor Caracalla, an innumerable swarm of Suevi appeared on the banks of the Mein, and in the neighborhood of the Roman provinces, in quest either of food, of plunder, or of glory.
Say Metro approves an ugly shopping center for your quiet suburban neighborhood.
Tallam had probably picked the course, through a study of the neighborhood, and had put Ashanti servitors to work.
Abandoned buildings, crumbling streets, and rundown neighborhoods prevailed along both sides of the busy road that many Austinites used to go from north to south and back, avoiding the more heavily trafficked I-35 and Mopac.
Whenever tetracycline appears in the neighborhood, a Bacteroides transposon goes into overdrive, manufacturing R-plasmids at a frantic rate and then passing them to other bacteria in an orgy of sexual encounters a hundred times more frequent than normal.
The scene was a new, makeshift Reform synagogue in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem.
She took a cab from the airport directly to the Barbizon for Women on Lexington and Sixty-third, and she loved the neighborhood the moment she saw it.
No one in the meeting had the heart to suggest that Nostrildamus might see the future differently if the child had been white and middle-class, instead of a biracial girl from a marginal city neighborhood.
The other route to the beleaguered Torminel neighborhood was on a major highway, and Casimir and the Bogo Boys, driving big trucks in line abreast, managed to occupy all available lanes ahead of the Naxids.
Those who remember the Poletown neighborhood before the old Dodge Main plant was taken down recall the sight of women in babushkas buying and selling poultry in the Chene-Ferry Market and ox-shouldered line-workers fisting boilermakers in the Round Bar between shifts.
She drove carefully down the steep winding road, through the neighborhood toward the entrance of Bonita Vista.