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neighborhood

noun · 19 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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  • UK: /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/
  • US: /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/
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1

noun

Meaning 1

The residential area near one's home.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • He lives in my neighborhood.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The inhabitants of a residential area.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

An approximate amount.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The quality of physical proximity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Examples

  • The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

noun

Meaning 6

The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, obsolete, uncountable

Examples

  • Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
  • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245, [...] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me [...]

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

Close proximity; nearness.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, dated, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, obsolete, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

Within a topological space:

A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

Within a topological space:

Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

11

noun

Meaning 11

Within a metric space:

A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Within a metric space:

Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Topics: mathematics, sciences, topology

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

14

noun

Meaning 14

The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Topics: graph-theory, mathematics, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, countable, uncountable

Topics: cellular-automata, computing, engineering, graph-theory, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

noun

Meaning 16

people living near one another

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • it is a friendly neighborhood
  • my neighborhood voted for Bush

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: neighbourhood

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: community

Narrower terms: hood, street

17

noun

Meaning 17

a surrounding or nearby region

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
  • it is a rugged locality
  • he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
  • I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: vicinity, locality, neighbourhood, neck of the woods

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: section

Narrower terms: gold coast, 'hood, place, proximity, scenery, Left Bank, Latin Quarter, Montmartre, Right Bank, Charlestown

18

noun

Meaning 18

an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • an ethnic neighborhood

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: area, country

19

noun

Meaning 19

the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
  • the price is in the neighborhood of $100

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: region

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: indefinite quantity

History

Etymology

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood. Cognates Cognate with Scots nichbourheid (“neighbourhood”). Compare also Dutch naburigheid (“neighbourhood”).

Across languages

Translations

279 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: جِوَار (jiwār) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Azerbaijani: qonşuluq — quality of being a neighbor
  • Belarusian: сусе́дства (susjédstva) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Bulgarian: съсе́дство (sǎsédstvo) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Czech: sousedství — quality of being a neighbor
  • Danish: naboskab — quality of being a neighbor
  • Dutch: nabuurschap — quality of being a neighbor
  • Finnish: naapuruus — quality of being a neighbor
  • Georgian: მეზობლობა (mezobloba) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Hungarian: szomszédság — quality of being a neighbor
  • Indonesian: pertetanggaan — quality of being a neighbor
  • Italian: vicinato — quality of being a neighbor
  • Japanese: 隣 (tonari) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Japanese: 隣人 (rinjin) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Macedonian: соседство (sosedstvo) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Malay: kejiranan — quality of being a neighbor
  • Malayalam: അയൽപക്കം (ayalpakkaṁ) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Norwegian: naboskap — quality of being a neighbor
  • Polish: sąsiedztwo — quality of being a neighbor
  • Portuguese: vizinhança — quality of being a neighbor
  • Russian: сосе́дство (sosédstvo) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Slovak: susedstvo — quality of being a neighbor
  • Swedish: grannskap — quality of being a neighbor
  • Tamil: அயல் (ayal) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Tamil: அண்டை (aṇṭai) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Turkish: komşuluk — quality of being a neighbor
  • Ukrainian: сусі́дство (susídstvo) — quality of being a neighbor
  • Welsh: cymdogaeth — quality of being a neighbor
  • Albanian: fqinj — area near one's home
  • Arabic: جِوَار (jiwār) — area near one's home
  • Arabic: قُرْب (qurb) — area near one's home
  • Arabic: حَيّ (ḥayy) — area near one's home
  • Arabic: فريج (firīj) — area near one's home
  • Aragonese: barrio — area near one's home
  • Aragonese: vico — area near one's home
  • Armenian: թաղ (tʻaġ) — area near one's home
  • Aromanian: vitsinatã — area near one's home
  • Aromanian: vitsinãtati — area near one's home
  • Aromanian: vitsinami — area near one's home
  • Asturian: barriu — area near one's home
  • Azerbaijani: məhəllə — area near one's home
  • Basque: auzo — area near one's home
  • Belarusian: вако́ліцы (vakólicy) — area near one's home
  • Bulgarian: съсе́дство (sǎsédstvo) — area near one's home
  • Bulgarian: око́лност (okólnost) — area near one's home
  • Bulgarian: кварта́л (kvartál) — area near one's home
  • Catalan: barri — area near one's home
  • Chinese Cantonese: 附近 (fu6 gan6) — area near one's home
  • Chinese Cantonese: 鄰里 (leon4 lei5) — area near one's home
  • Chinese Mandarin: 附近 (fùjìn) — area near one's home
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鄰里 (línlǐ) — area near one's home
  • Chinese Mandarin: 周圍 /周围 (zhōuwéi) — area near one's home
  • Chinese Mandarin: 街坊 (jiēfang) — area near one's home
  • Czech: sousedství — area near one's home
  • Danish: kvarter — area near one's home
  • Danish: nabolag — area near one's home
  • Danish: omegn — area near one's home
  • Danish: bydel — area near one's home
  • Dutch: buurt — area near one's home
  • Dutch: kwartier — area near one's home
  • Dutch: wijk — area near one's home
  • Egyptian: h-A-w-Y1:Z2 (hꜣw) — area near one's home
  • Esperanto: najbaraĵo — area near one's home
  • Estonian: naabrus — area near one's home
  • Estonian: ümbruskond — area near one's home
  • Faroese: grannalag — area near one's home
  • Finnish: naapurusto — area near one's home
  • Finnish: lähistö — area near one's home
  • Finnish: kulmakunta — area near one's home
  • Finnish: alue — area near one's home
  • Finnish: lähiympäristö — area near one's home
  • Finnish: ympäristö — area near one's home
  • French: voisinage — area near one's home
  • French: environs — area near one's home
  • French: quartier — area near one's home
  • Georgian: სამეზობლო (samezoblo) — area near one's home
  • German: Nachbarschaft — area near one's home
  • German: Umgebung — area near one's home
  • German: Kiez — area near one's home
  • German: Viertel — area near one's home
  • German: Quartier — area near one's home
  • German: Stadtteil — area near one's home
  • Greek: γειτονιά (geitoniá) — area near one's home
  • Greek: περιοχή (periochí) — area near one's home
  • Greek: συνοικία (synoikía) — area near one's home
  • Gujarati: પડોશ (paḍoś) — area near one's home
  • Gujarati: પ્રતિવેશ (prativeś) — area near one's home
  • Hebrew: שְׁכוּנָה (shkhuná) — area near one's home
  • Hindi: पड़ोस (paṛos) — area near one's home
  • Hungarian: környék — area near one's home
  • Icelandic: nágrenni — area near one's home
  • Indonesian: lingkungan — area near one's home
  • Indonesian: lingkungan tetangga — area near one's home
  • Indonesian: pertetanggaan — area near one's home
  • Irish: comharsanacht — area near one's home
  • Italian: vicinato — area near one's home
  • Italian: quartiere — area near one's home
  • Japanese: 近所 (kinjo) — area near one's home
  • Japanese: 近隣 (kinrin) — area near one's home
  • Japanese: 周辺 (shūhen) — area near one's home
  • Japanese: 付近 (fukin) — area near one's home
  • Khmer: ក្រវល់ (krâvôl) — area near one's home
  • Khmer: សង្កាត់ (sɑɑsɑngkat) — area near one's home
  • Korean: 근처 (geuncheo) — area near one's home
  • Korean: 부근 (bugeun) — area near one's home
  • Korean: 동네 (dongne) — area near one's home
  • Ladino: maale — area near one's home
  • Ladino: vezindado — area near one's home
  • Latin: vicinitas — area near one's home
  • Latin: vīcīnia — area near one's home
  • Latin: proximum — area near one's home
  • Lithuanian: kaimynystė — area near one's home
  • Macedonian: соседство (sosedstvo) — area near one's home
  • Macedonian: комшилук (komšiluk) — area near one's home
  • Malay: kejiranan — area near one's home
  • Malayalam: അയൽപക്കം (ayalpakkaṁ) — area near one's home
  • Norwegian: naboskap — area near one's home
  • Norwegian: strøk — area near one's home
  • Norwegian Bokmål: naboskap — area near one's home
  • Old English: nēawist — area near one's home
  • Persian: محله (mahalle) — area near one's home
  • Polish: sąsiedztwo — area near one's home
  • Portuguese: vizinhança — area near one's home
  • Portuguese: bairro — area near one's home
  • Punjabi: ਗੁਆਂਢ (guāṇḍha) — area near one's home
  • Punjabi: ਪੜੋਸ (paṛos) — area near one's home
  • Romanian: vecinătate — area near one's home
  • Russian: сосе́дство (sosédstvo) — area near one's home
  • Russian: окре́стности (okréstnosti) — area near one's home
  • Russian: бли́зость (blízostʹ) — area near one's home
  • Russian: окру́га (okrúga) — area near one's home
  • Scots: neibourheid — area near one's home
  • Serbo-Croatian: су́седство — area near one's home
  • Serbo-Croatian: су́сједство — area near one's home
  • Serbo-Croatian: súsedstvo — area near one's home
  • Serbo-Croatian: súsjedstvo — area near one's home
  • Slovak: susedstvo — area near one's home
  • Slovene: soseska — area near one's home
  • Spanish: vecindad — area near one's home
  • Spanish: barrio — area near one's home
  • Spanish: vecindario — area near one's home
  • Spanish: cercanía — area near one's home
  • Swedish: grannskap — area near one's home
  • Swedish: kvarter — area near one's home
  • Tagalog: kapitbahayan — area near one's home
  • Tamil: சுற்றுப்புறம் (cuṟṟuppuṟam) — area near one's home
  • Tamil: அக்கம் பக்கம் (akkam pakkam) — area near one's home
  • Tamil: அயல் (ayal) — area near one's home
  • Tamil: அண்டை (aṇṭai) — area near one's home
  • Turkish: civar — area near one's home
  • Turkish: semt — area near one's home
  • Turkish: mahalle — area near one's home
  • Turkish: yöre — area near one's home
  • Turkish: muhit — area near one's home
  • Ukrainian: сусі́дство (susídstvo) — area near one's home
  • Ukrainian: окру́га (okrúha) — area near one's home
  • Ukrainian: око́лиці (okólyci) — area near one's home
  • Volapük: niläd — area near one's home
  • Welsh: bro — area near one's home
  • Welsh: cymdogaeth — area near one's home
  • Yiddish: געגנט (gegnt) — area near one's home
  • Belarusian: сусе́дзі (susjédzi) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Bulgarian: кварта́л (kvartál) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Catalan: veïnat — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Chinese Mandarin: 鄰里鄉親 /邻里乡亲 (línlǐ xiāngqīn) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Czech: sousedstvo — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Danish: nabolag — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Dutch: buurt (gemeenschap) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Estonian: naabrid — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Finnish: naapurusto — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Finnish: naapurit — inhabitants of a residential area
  • German: Nachbarschaft — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Hungarian: szomszédság — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Hungarian: szomszédok — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Italian: vicinato — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Macedonian: соседи (sosedi) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Macedonian: комшии (komšii) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Norwegian: naboer — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Portuguese: vizinhança — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Punjabi: ਗੁਆਂਢ (guāṇḍha) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Russian: сосе́ди (sosédi) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Scots: neibourheid — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Scottish Gaelic: coimhearsnachd — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Scottish Gaelic: nàbachd — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Serbo-Croatian: súsjedstvo — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Slovene: soseščina — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Turkish: mahalleli — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Turkish: konu komşu — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Ukrainian: сусі́ди (susídy) — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Volapük: nilädanef — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Welsh: cymdogaeth — inhabitants of a residential area
  • Arabic: حَيّ (ḥayy) — division of a municipality or region
  • Arabic: فريج (firīj) — division of a municipality or region
  • Bulgarian: о́кръг (ókrǎg) — division of a municipality or region
  • Catalan: barri — division of a municipality or region
  • Esperanto: kvartalo — division of a municipality or region
  • Finnish: kaupunginosa — division of a municipality or region
  • Finnish: kylä — division of a municipality or region
  • Finnish: alue — division of a municipality or region
  • Finnish: kulmakunta — division of a municipality or region
  • German: Stadtteil — division of a municipality or region
  • German: Viertel — division of a municipality or region
  • Hungarian: városrész — division of a municipality or region
  • Hungarian: negyed — division of a municipality or region
  • Hungarian: városnegyed — division of a municipality or region
  • Italian: quartiere — division of a municipality or region
  • Japanese: 近所 (kinjo) — division of a municipality or region
  • Khmer: ជំនិត (cumnɨt) — division of a municipality or region
  • Lutuv: khytluo — division of a municipality or region
  • Norwegian: boområder — division of a municipality or region
  • Portuguese: bairro — division of a municipality or region
  • Romanian: cartier — division of a municipality or region
  • Russian: микрорайо́н (mikrorajón) — division of a municipality or region
  • Spanish: barrio — division of a municipality or region
  • Swahili: mtaa — division of a municipality or region
  • Swedish: bostadsområde — division of a municipality or region
  • Tamil: சுற்றுப்புறம் (cuṟṟuppuṟam) — division of a municipality or region
  • Turkish: semt — division of a municipality or region
  • Turkish: yöre — division of a municipality or region
  • Turkish: yaka — division of a municipality or region
  • Turkish: mahalle — division of a municipality or region
  • Turkish: muhit — division of a municipality or region
  • Danish: cirka — approximate amount
  • Danish: i omegnen af — approximate amount
  • Finnish: suuruusluokka — approximate amount
  • German: ungefähr — approximate amount
  • German: im Bereich von — approximate amount
  • Tamil: கிட்ட (kiṭṭa) — approximate amount
  • Tamil: சுமார் (cumār) — approximate amount
  • Tamil: ஏறத்தாழ (ēṟattāḻa) — approximate amount
  • Turkish: civar (in usage, 'civarında') — approximate amount
  • Bulgarian: бли́зост (blízost) — quality of physical proximity
  • Dutch: nabijheid — quality of physical proximity
  • Esperanto: najbareco — quality of physical proximity
  • Finnish: läheisyys — quality of physical proximity
  • Finnish: naapuruus — quality of physical proximity
  • German: Nachbarschaft — quality of physical proximity
  • Greek: γειτνίαση (geitníasi) — quality of physical proximity
  • Italian: vicinanza — quality of physical proximity
  • Russian: бли́зость (blízostʹ) — quality of physical proximity
  • Russian: сосе́дство (sosédstvo) — quality of physical proximity
  • Swedish: närhet — quality of physical proximity
  • Tamil: அயல் (ayal) — quality of physical proximity
  • Tamil: அண்டை (aṇṭai) — quality of physical proximity
  • Turkish: yakınlık — quality of physical proximity
  • Bulgarian: добросъсе́дство (dobrosǎsédstvo) — neighborly kindness or good will
  • Finnish: naapurisopu — neighborly kindness or good will
  • Irish: comharsanacht — neighborly kindness or good will
  • Russian: добрососе́дство (dobrososédstvo) — neighborly kindness or good will
  • Scots: neibourheid — neighborly kindness or good will
  • Swedish: grannsämja — neighborly kindness or good will
  • Turkish: komşuluk ('Komşuluk öldü mü?') — neighborly kindness or good will
  • Bulgarian: око́лност (okólnost) — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Catalan: veïnat — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Catalan: entorn — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Czech: okolí — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Danish: omegn — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Esperanto: ĉirkaŭaĵo — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Finnish: ympäristö — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • French: voisinage — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • German: Umgebung — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Greek: γειτονιά (geitoniá) — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Icelandic: grennd — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Indonesian: lingkungan — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Indonesian: persekitaran — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Indonesian: ketetanggaan — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Italian: intorno — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Japanese: 近傍 (kinbō) — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Polish: otoczenie — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Portuguese: vizinhança — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Swedish: omgivning — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Turkish: komşuluk — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Ukrainian: окі́л (okíl) — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Vietnamese: lân cận — topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point
  • Bulgarian: око́лност (okólnost) — topology: set containing an open ball which contains a specified point
  • Portuguese: vizinhança — topology: set containing an open ball which contains a specified point
  • Bulgarian: око́лност (okólnost) — topology: set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point
  • Finnish: lähiympäristö — topology: set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point
  • Romanian: vecinătate — topology: set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point
Real reading context

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