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Neighborhood is defined as a group of houses or buildings that are together in an area or that are grouped together as a unit.
(noun)All of the houses in your subdivision are an example of your neighborhood.
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See neighborhood in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- Archaic friendly relations, as of neighbors; neighborliness
- the state or quality of being neighbors
- a community, district, or area, esp. with regard to some characteristic or point of reference: an old neighborhood
- the people living near one another; community: the whole neighborhood pitched in and helped during the flood
- Math. the set of all points which lie within a stated distance of a given point
See neighborhood in American Heritage Dictionary 4
noun
- A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; an ethnic neighborhood.
- The people who live near one another or in a particular district or area: The noise upset the entire neighborhood.
- The surrounding area; vicinity: happened to be in the neighborhood.
- Informal Approximate amount or range: in the neighborhood of five million dollars.
- Friendliness appropriate to a neighbor: a feeling of neighborhood.
- Mathematics The set of points surrounding a specified point, each of which is within a certain, usually small distance from the specified point.
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