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Definition 2024

neighbourhood ‎(plural neighbourhoods)

Close proximity, particularly in reference to home
He lives in my neighbourhood.
and, by extension, its inhabitants
The fire alarmed all the neighbourhood.
a division of a municipality or region, formally or informally divided
(archaic) The quality or condition of being a neighbour; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
- 1667: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book 1, ll. 399-402
  Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.
- 1835: Lord Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes
  Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.
(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
(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbour; neighbourly kindness or good will.

close proximity, particularly in reference to home

Arabic: جوار m ‎(jiwaar), قرب m ‎(qurb)
Armenian: թաղ (hy) ‎(tʿał)
Belarusian: ваколіцы f pl ‎(vakólicy)
Catalan: barri (ca) m
Chinese:
Mandarin: 附近 (zh) ‎(fùjìn), 鄰里 (zh), 邻里 (zh) ‎(línlǐ), 周圍 (zh), 周围 (zh) ‎(zhōuwéi), 街坊 (zh) ‎(jiēfang)
Czech: sousedství n
Danish: kvarter (da) n, nabolag n
Dutch: buurt (nl) f, kwartier (nl) n, wijk (nl)
Finnish: naapurusto (fi), lähiseutu, kulmakunta (fi)
French: voisinage (fr) m, environs (fr) m pl, quartier (fr) m
German: Nachbarschaft (de) f, Umgebung (de) f
Greek: περίχωρα (el) n pl ‎(períchora)
Hungarian: szomszédság (hu), szomszédok (hu)
Icelandic: nágrenni (is) n
Italian: vicinato m, quartiere (it) m
Japanese: 近所 ‎(きんじょ, kinjo), 近隣 ‎(きんりん, kinrin), 周辺 (ja) ‎(しゅうへん, shūhen)
Korean: 근처 (ko) ‎(geuncheo)

Macedonian: соседство n ‎(sósedstvo), комшилук m ‎(kómšiluk)
Norwegian: strøk
Bokmål: naboskap n
Polish: sąsiedztwo (pl) n
Portuguese: vizinhança (pt) f, bairro (pt) m
Romanian: vecinătate (ro) f
Russian: соседство (ru) n ‎(sosédstvo), окрестности (ru) f pl ‎(okréstnosti), близость (ru) f ‎(blízost'), округа (ru) f ‎(okrúga)
Scots: neibourheid
Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic: су́седство n (Ekavian), су́сједство n (Ijekavian)

Roman: súsedstvo (sh) n (Ekavian), súsjedstvo (sh) n (Ijekavian)
Spanish: vecindad (es) f, barrio (es) m, (Mexico) colonia (es), (Mexico, planned) fraccionamiento
Swahili: mtaa (sw)
Swedish: grannskap (sv) c, kvarter (sv) c
Turkish: civar (tr), semt (tr), mahalle (tr)
Ukrainian: сусідство n ‎(susídstvo), округа (uk) f ‎(okrúha), околиці f pl ‎(okólyci)
Volapük: niläd (vo)
Welsh: bro f

inhabitants in the close proximity

archaic: quality or condition of being a neighbour

topology: set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point

obsolete: neighbourly kindness or good will