neighborhood

IPA: nˈeɪbɝhʊd

The residential area near one's home.
The inhabitants of a residential area.
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
An approximate amount.
The quality of physical proximity.
(chiefly obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
(dated) Close proximity; nearness.
(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
(topology) Within a topological space:
A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
(topology) Within a metric space:
A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
(topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
(graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
(cellular automata) The set of all cells near a given cell used to determine that cell's state in the next generation.

Examples of "neighborhood" in Sentences

The station is near the neighborhood.
The heart of the neighborhood is the rue Demean.
Thanks for the friendly welcome to the neighborhood.
Megalithic monuments are numerous in the neighborhood.
It is the principle of preferring the neighborhood to the remote.
The architects integrated it into the landscape and the neighborhood.
The women of the neighborhood also go to the house of the bereaved family.
Residents of the neighborhood uniformly refer to it as the Lower East Side.
The entire neighborhood bursts into the house as the new family cowers in fear.
They are the residents who want new ideas to help invigorate city neighborhoods.