資料來源 : pyDict
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資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Neighborhood \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. --Ld. Lytton.
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; vicinaty; proximity.
Usage: {Neighborhood}, {Vicinity}. Neigborhood is
Anglo-Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not
commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood.
A neigborhood is a more immediately 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.
資料來源 : WordNet®
neighborhood
n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the
vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he
always blames someone else in the immediate
neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am
in this neck of the woods" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality},
{neighbourhood}, {neck of the woods}]
2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly
neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: {neighbourhood}]
3: the approximate amount of something (usually used
prepositionally as in `in the region of'); "it was going
to take in the region of two or three months to finish the
job"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100" [syn: {region}]