Neighborhood

English

Noun

Neighborhood (countable and uncountable; plural Neighborhoods)

1. A nearby area.
2. The inhabitants of a residential area.
3. A division of a municipality or region, formally or informally divided
4. An approximate amount.
5. (uncountable) The quality of physical proximity.
6. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
7. (obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other

Thesaurus

airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation, area, belt, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines, context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country, department, district, division, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, extent, foreground, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, magnitude, matter, milieu, nearness, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, range, region, salient, section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, three-mile limit, total environment, tune, twelve-mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, zone

Alternative forms

• neighbourhood

Etymology

neighbor

Pronunciation

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Synonyms

• vicinity
• proximity
• quarter

Derived terms

• microneighborhood

Related terms

• neighborly

Translations

the quality of being a neighbor

Dutch: nabuurschap (nl) Finnish: naapuruus (fi)

Turkish: komşuluk (tr)

close proximity, particularly in reference to home

Arabic: جوار (ar) (jiwaar) m., قرب (ar) (qurb) m. Armenian: թաղ (hy) (t’aġ) Belarusian: ваколіцы (be) (vakólicy) f. pl. Chinese: Mandarin: 附近 (cmn) (fùjìn), 鄰里 (cmn), 邻里 (cmn) (línlǐ), 周圍 (cmn), 周围 (cmn) (zhōuwéi), 街坊 (cmn) (jiēfang) Czech: sousedství (cs) n. Dutch: buurt (nl) f., kwartier (nl) n., wijk (nl) Esperanto: najbaraĵo (eo) Finnish: naapurusto (fi), lähiseutu (fi), kulmakunta (fi) French: voisinage (fr) m., environs (fr) m. pl., quartier (fr) m. German: Nachbarschaft (de) f., Umgebung (de) f. Greek: γειτονιά (el) (geitoniá) f. Hungarian: szomszédság (hu), szomszédok (hu) Icelandic: nágrenni (is) n. Italian: vicinato (it) m. Japanese: 近所 (ja) (きんじょ, kinjo), 近隣 (ja) (きんりん, kinrin), 周辺 (ja) (しゅうへん, shūhen) Korean: 근처 (ko) (geuncheo) (近處 (ko)) Latin: vicinitas (la)

Macedonian: соседство (mk) (sósedstvo) n., комшилук (mk) (kómšiluk) m. Polish: sąsiedztwo (pl) n. Portuguese: vizinhança (pt) f. Romanian: vecinătate (ro) Russian: соседство (ru) (sosédstvo) n., окрестности (ru) (okréstnosti) f. pl., близость (ru) (blízost') f., округа (ru) (okrúga) f. Scots: neibourheid Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: су́седство (sh) n. (Ekavian), су́сједство (sh) n. (Ijekavian) Roman: súsedstvo (sh) n. (Ekavian), súsjedstvo (sh) n. (Ijekavian) Spanish: vecindad (es) f., barrio (es) m. Swahili: mtaa (sw) Swedish: grannskap (sv) c. Turkish: civar (tr), semt (tr), mahalle (tr) Ukrainian: сусідство (uk) (susídstvo) n., округа (uk) (okrúha) f., околиці (uk) (okólyci) f. pl.

people who live in vicinity of each other

Dutch: buurt(gemeenschap) Finnish: naapurusto (fi)

Turkish: konu komşu (tr)

quality of physical proximity

Dutch: nabijheid (nl) Esperanto: najbareco (eo)

Greek: γειτνίαση (el) (geitníasi) f. Turkish: çevre (tr), etraf (tr) Estonian: naabrus, ümbruskond French: quartier m., voisinage m.