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noun 
  1. Close proximity, particularly in reference to home
He lives in my .
  1. and, by extension, it's inhabitants
The fire alarmed all the .
  1. (archaic) The quality or condition of being a neighbour; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
  • 1667: Nor content with such / Audacious , 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 ." — 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.
  • Translations: 
    • Dutch: buurt , wijk
    • French: voisinage , quartier
    • German: Nachbarschaft
    • Italian: vicinato
      (trans-mid)
    • Spanish: vecindad , barrio
    Etymology: (suffix, neighbour, hood)

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