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] 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; 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.

Neigh"bor*ing, a.

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