Meaning

15 senses
  1. (US, countable, uncountable)The residential area near one's home.

    He lives in my neighborhood.

    Nachbarschaft, Umgebung, Kiez

    сосе́дствоsosédstvo, окре́стностиokréstnosti, бли́зостьblízostʹ

    сусі́дствоsusídstvo, окру́гаokrúha, око́лиціokólyci

  2. (US, collective, countable, uncountable)The inhabitants of a residential area.

    The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

    Nachbarschaft

    сосе́диsosédi

    сусі́диsusídy

  3. (US, countable, uncountable)A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

    We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

    Stadtteil, Viertel

    микрорайо́нmikrorajón

  4. (US, countable, uncountable)An approximate amount.

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

    ungefähr, im Bereich von

    the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)

  5. (US, countable, uncountable)The quality of physical proximity.

    The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

    Nachbarschaft

    бли́зостьblízostʹ, сосе́дствоsosédstvo

  6. (US, countable, dated, uncountable)Close proximity; nearness.

  7. Within a topological space:

    (US, countable, uncountable)A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.

  8. (US, countable, uncountable)Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.

  9. Within a metric space:

    (US, countable, uncountable)A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.

  10. (US, countable, uncountable)Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.

  11. (US, countable, uncountable)The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.

  12. (US, countable, uncountable)The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

Examples

33 sentences
  1. Tom lives in one of the best neighborhoods in Boston.

    ruТом живёт в одном из лучших кварталов Бостона.

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  2. I need a list of all the dangerous neighborhoods in the city.

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  3. Tom lives in one of Boston's best neighborhoods.

    ruТом живёт в одном из лучших кварталов Бостона.

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  4. Tom lived in one of Boston's best neighborhoods.

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  5. Stay away from the dangerous neighborhoods.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 3
topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point:
area near one's home:
inhabitants of a residential area:
Русский
By meaning 4
area near one's home:
inhabitants of a residential area:
division of a municipality or region:
neighborly kindness or good will:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
topology: set containing an open set which contains some specified point:
area near one's home:
approximate amount:

Origin

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburred

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.

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