# neighbourhood

Pronunciation: UK say "NAY-buh-huud" /ˈneɪbə.hʊd/; US say "NAY-bur-huud" /ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/

## Noun

1. An area of a town or city, especially the streets around someone's home or around a particular place, often with a character of its own.
   - Simple: An area of a town or city, especially the part around where you live.
   - _Is there a good chemist anywhere in your neighbourhood?_
   - _Most of the families in our neighbourhood send their children to the same primary school._
2. The people living in a particular residential area, considered together.
   - Simple: All the people who live in an area.
   - _News of the robbery shocked the entire neighbourhood._
   - _By morning, half the neighbourhood had signed the petition against the new road._
3. Closeness in space; the fact of being near something.
   - Simple: The state of being close to something.
   - _Residents living in the immediate neighbourhood of the airport have been offered help with the cost of double glazing._
   - _Several rare orchids have been found in the neighbourhood of the old quarry, which is now a nature reserve._
4. A rough figure close to a stated number, used mainly in the phrase in the neighbourhood of.
   - Simple: A rough amount, near a certain number but not exact.
   - _Repairs to the roof are likely to cost in the neighbourhood of £20,000._
   - _Temperatures this weekend should be somewhere in the neighbourhood of 30 degrees._

## Noun

5. The relationship of being neighbours, living near or next to one another. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: The fact of being neighbours and living near each other.
6. The kindly, helpful spirit expected of a good neighbour. *(obsolete)*
   - Simple: Kind and friendly feelings towards the people who live near you.

## Other meanings

- (noun) In mathematics, a set that contains a given point together with every point close enough to it, such as an open set or open ball around the point.
- (noun) In graph theory, the set of vertices joined to a particular vertex by an edge.
- (noun) In cellular automata, the group of cells around a given cell whose states fix that cell's state in the next generation.

## Origin

Formed from neighbour + -hood.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/neighbourhood (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).