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English

Alternative spellings
neighborhood italbrac|US

Etymology
suffix|neighbour|hood

Pronunciation
IPA|/�neɪb�h�d/
audio|en-us-neighbourhood.ogg|Audio (US)

Noun
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1. Close proximity, particularly in reference to home

#:He lives in my neighbourhood.

1. and, by extension, it's inhabitants

#:The fire alarmed all the neighbourhood.

1. archaic The quality or condition of being a neighbour; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.

#:*1667: Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God � John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 399-402
#:*"Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood." — w:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton|Lord Lytton.

1. topology The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point; The set of all the vertex|vertices adjacent to a given vertex
2. obsolete The disposition becoming a neighbour; neighbourly kindness or good will.

Synonyms
proximity
vicinity

Related terms
microneighbourhood

Translations
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Arabic: Arab|ج�ار|ا�ج�ار IPAchar|(al-jiw�r) m
Chinese: �� (ji�f�ng); �� (fùjìn)
Dutch: buurt f, wijk
Finnish: seutu, naapurusto
French: voisinage m, quartier m
German: Nachbarschaft f
Hungarian: szomszédok, szomszédság
Icelandic: nágrenni f
Italian: vicinato m
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Japanese: �� (����, kinjo)
Korean: 근� (geuncheo)
Portuguese: vizinhança f
Russian: �о�ед��во (sosédstvo) n
Serbian: ���ед��во (susedstvo) n
Spanish: vecindad f, barrio m
Swedish: grannskap c
Ottoman Turkish: mahala
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