neighborhoo

n. [ Written also neighbourhood. ] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [ Obs. ] Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. -- 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. [ 1913 Webster ]