| Definitions | neighbourhood
noun
- Close proximity, particularly in reference to home
- He lives in my .
- and, by extension, it's inhabitants
- The fire alarmed all the .
- (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.
- (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
- (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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