Neigh"bor*hood (?), n. [Written also neighbourhood.] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.

Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.

4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Syn. -- Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. -- Neighborhood, Vicinity. Neighborhood is Anglo- Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediate vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square.

• The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
       quotations:
       *"Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood." — Lord Lytton.
  
• A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors
       examples:
       He lives in my neighborhood.
  
• The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other
       examples:
       The fire alarmed all the neighborhood.
  
• (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
       quotations:
       *"" —Jeremy Taylor.