ETYM Written also neighbourhood.
(Alternate spelling: neighbourhood).
1. Neighborly relationship.
2. The quality or state of being neighbors; proximity.
3. A place or region near; vicinity; an approximate amount, extent, or degree.
4. The people living near one another; a section lived in by neighbors and usually having distinguishing characteristics.
5. The set of all points belonging to a given set whose distances from a given point are less than a given positive number; broadly; a set that contains a neighborhood.
6. People living near one another; SYN. neighbourhood.
(Alternate spelling: neighbourliness).
A disposition to be friendly and helpful to neighbors; SYN. neighbourliness, good-neighborliness, good-neighbourliness.
Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for neighborhood.
Alternate (chiefly British) spelling for neighborliness.
ETYM Latin vicinitas, from vicinus neighboring, near, from vicus a row of houses, a village; akin to Greek oikos a house, Skr. vęça a house, viç to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf. Old Fren. vicinité. Related to Diocese, Economy, Parish, Vicinage, Wick a village.
A surrounding or nearby region; SYN. locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood.