neighborhood

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

NEIGHBORHOOD, noun 1. A place near; vicinity; the adjoining district or any place not distant. He lives in my neighborhood 2. State of being near each other; as several states in a neighborhood 3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other. The fire alarmed all the neighborhood
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