Definition of neighborhood
1
: neighborly relationship
- … a closer feeling of brotherhood, a more efficient sense of neighborhood …
- —Nathaniel Hawthorne
3 a
: 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
4 a
: 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
