NEIGHBORHOOD

n.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. Ld. Lytton.

2.
n.

A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

3.
n.

The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.

4.
n.

The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.


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