Definition of neighborhood
1
: neighborly relationship
… a closer feeling of brotherhood, a more efficient sense of neighborhood …— Nathaniel Hawthorne
3a
: a place or region near : vicinity
traveled to a place somewhere in the neighborhood of that city
b
: an approximate amount, extent, or degree
cost in the neighborhood of $100
4a
: the people living near one another
The whole neighborhood heard about it.
b
: a section lived in by neighbors and usually having distinguishing characteristics
lived in a quiet neighborhood
5
: the set (see set entry 2 sense 21) of all points belonging to a given set whose distances from a given point are less than a given positive (see positive entry 1 sense 4e) number
broadly
: a set that contains a neighborhood
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The first known use of neighborhood was in the 15th century
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