\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.