Neigh'bor-hōōd (nā'-), n.

n. [Also neighbourhood.] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor, or of dwelling near. Consider several states in a neighborhood. Swift.

2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors.
3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neighborhood.
4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; friendly feeling to those about one; neighborly kindness or good will. [Obs.]

Let all the intervals of time be employed in prayers, . . . works of nature, recreation, . . . and neighborhood. Bp. Taylor. Syn. — Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. — NEIGHBORHOOD, VICINITY. Neighborhood is Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Hence they differ (as happens in respect to some other words) in degree or strength. Vicinity does not 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 in the vicinity of the square. I could not bear To leave thee in the neighborhood of death, But flew in all the haste of love to find thee. Addison. There is a law of neighborhood which does not leave a man perfectly master on his own ground. Burke. The reader has had a sketch of the interior of the Alhambra, and may be desirous of a general idea of its vicinity. W. Irving.