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noun 
  1. The nearby area, particularly when referring to home.
We have just moved to a pleasant
  1. and by extension, it's inhabitants.
The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
  1. (uncountable) The quality of proximity.
    • "Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood." — w:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton, Lord Lytton.
      1. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
Translations: 
  • Dutch: buurt, wijk
  • French: voisinage
  • German: Nachbarschaft
  • Italian: vicinato
  • Spanish: vecindad
Etymology: (suffix, neighbor, hood)

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