neighbourhoodneighborhoodn.
/ˈneɪbəhʊd/, U.S. /ˈneɪbərˌ(h)ʊd/ I. Concrete uses.† 4.
1.
a. The people living near to a certain place or within a certain range; neighbours collectively.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > type of inhabitant generally > [noun] > neighbour > collectively
neighbourhooda1425
homefolk1798
a1425 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Cambr. Ff.5.35) (1873) C. vii. 98 (MED) Neȝburhade [c1400 Huntington þenne was ich a-redy..to lacke myn neghebores].
1686 tr. J. Chardin Trav. Persia 73 The Commanders of this Fortress make always Leagues with the Neighborhood.
1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. iv. 34 The whole neighbourhood came out to meet their minister.
1802 E. Parsons Myst. Visit III. 204 The neighbourhood had scandalized [her].
1878 T. Hardy Return of Native I. i. ii. 20 Who is she? One of the neighbourhood?
1955 G. Gorer Exploring Eng. Char. iv. 55 The neighbourhood, the local group, is not only the area of associations which may be more or less voluntary and more or less friendly; it is also the area in which many annoyances and disagreements can be focused.
1991 Daily Tel. 5 July 19/8 The district auditor recently advised the neighbourhood that it could sell the painting.
b. A district or portion of a town, city, or country, esp. considered in reference to the character or circumstances of its inhabitants.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > part of country or district > [noun]
endc893
shirec893
estrec1275
sidec1325
bounds1340
provincea1382
partc1400
landmark1550
tract1553
canton1601
neighbourhood1652
district1712
section1785
circumscription1831
location1833
block1840
strip1873
1652 Perfect Acct. Intelligence Armies & Navy No. 76. 607 A Petition..Humbly praying that they may..be inabled by a gracious Act of Parliament, by help of Commissioners of their Neighbour-hood, to recover and make new their ancient Dreins and Sluces.
1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 2 The raging Sword and wastful Fire Destroy the wretched Neighbourhood around.
1704 Boston News-let. 23 Oct. 2/2 All persons who in the hurry of the Fire had carried away any Goods, either from the house where the Fire broke out in, or the Neighbourhood; to bring the said Goods to the house of Mr. Justice Clark.
1778 T. Pennant Tour in Wales I. 16 The several sorts of founderies in the neighborhood.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) XI. 60 All the camps in this neighbourhood quite quiet.
1838 C. Dickens Oliver Twist I. xv. 248 Darkness had set in; it was a low neighbourhood.
1880 B. Disraeli Endymion II. xxi. 206 The back slums of his ferocious neighbourhood.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage lxxiv. 383 They dined in the neighbourhood in an Italian restaurant.
1958 New Shetlander No. 48. 25 So dere was nothin for it bit ta git a search-pairty going and hunse da neebrid for him.
1969 J. Ashbery & J. Schuyler Nest of Ninnies ii. 27 What kind of neighbourhood are these people going to imagine I live in, Marshall?
1991 Times Educ. Suppl. 1 Mar. 48/5 The victimisation of Julie, the only convent school girl in a tough neighbourhood.
c. Town Planning. A small sector of a larger urban area, provided with its own shops and other facilities. Frequently attributive (see Compounds 1a).
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > part of town or city > [noun]
quarter1526
ferling1610
quartier1828
urban village1867
quartiere1888
section1907
poblacion1926
neighbourhood1929
precinct1942
village1949
1929 S. M. Harrison in C. A. Perry Neighborhood Unit 24 The planned neighborhood does normally bring about a somewhat closely knit social fabric.
1951 Social Aspects Town Devel. Plan (Univ. Liverpool, Social Sci. Dept.) ii. 25 It must be emphasised that the essence of a Neighbourhood from the point of view of the planner and sociologist alike, is the opportunity it provides for people to meet together, to share the burdens of daily life, and to co-operate in an endeavour to overcome their common problems.
1961 Listener 2 Nov. 702/2 People are beginning..to insist that their local authorities give proper consideration to all those aspects of life which make a neighbourhood different from an estate.
1973 Country Life 6 Dec. 1952/1 One of London's greatest attractions is..its village-like localities. In planning jargon these are called neighbourhoods or..environmental areas.
1991 Economist 5 Oct. 82/1 Most of the recent work is ‘infilling’; adding to existing infrastructure so that government spokesmen can announce new ‘neighbourhoods’ rather than new settlements.
2.
a. The vicinity or surrounding area. Usually with of. Also figurative.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near > a near place > neighbourhood (of a place)
vicinagea1325
neighbourhoodc1450
precincts1479
neighboured1555
verge1641
adjacency1646
voisinage1649
environsc1660
vicinity1781
c1450 (?c1425) E. Hull tr. Seven Psalms (1995) 192 Wasche here and purge here from þe spottys of þe vij dedly synnys. And for-to cast my soule from þer neyborowhed, expandi manus meas ad te.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry i. f. 9 Some..who can not shunne the neighbourhood of the Riuer or the Sea.
1645 J. Milton Passion viii, in Poems 19 The gentle neighbourhood of grove and spring Would soon unboosom all thir Echoes milde.
1654 Bp. J. Taylor Real Presence 237 This comparison..is odious up to the neighbourhood and similitude of a great impiety.
1745 R. Pococke Descr. East II. 242 Cutting off so many Greek villages in the neighbourhood of that city.
1770 J. Bowdon et al. Short Narr. Horrid Massacre Boston App. 14 Going from his house..to see a friend in the neighbourhood of the Rev. Dr. Cooper's meeting-house.
1813 Duke of Wellington Dispatches (1838) XI. 23 To strengthen our position in front and in the neighbourhood of Irun.
1875 H. E. Manning Internal Mission of Holy Ghost xi. 305 When two flames are brought into the neighbourhood of each other they draw to each other.
1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 751/1 The Molasse, in the neighbourhood of the mountains, consists chiefly of conglomerates and sandstones.
1925 H. C. Booth tr. F. Auerbach Mod. Magnetics (U.K. ed.) vii. 180 Electric induction..takes place when in the neighbourhood of a closed circuit not a magnet, but an electric current, is moved.
1977 M. Girouard Sweetness & Light v. 93 Houses..designed for artists or people who liked being in the neighbourhood of artists.
2000 A. Dalby Dangerous Tastes 100 Zerumbet was an easily propagated relative of ginger, widely grown in the neighbourhood of Goa.
b. in the neighbourhood of: (modifying a numerical quantity) somewhere about, somewhere close to; approximately.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > approximate quantity or amount > approximately (an amount) [phrase]
plus minus1611
or soa1616
a matter of1645
there or (and) thereaboutsa1696
the matter of1829
somewhere about1846
in the neighbourhood of1847
in the region of1865
of the order of1903
give or take1958
not unadjacent to1966
1847 S. C. Reid Scouting Exped. McCulloch's Texas Rangers vi. 54 As the number of inhabitants is put down at 3000, I should think that by multiplying them by 750..you might get somewhere in the neighbourhood of the number of dogs.
1854 in G. N. Jones Florida Plantation Rec. (1927) 100 I have about in the neighbourhood of 40 packed bales of Cotton.
1893 Times (Weekly ed.) 15 Dec. 1000/2 The rate of exchange with India has been maintained in the neighbourhood of 16d.
1905 A. Adams Outlet 310 It was in the neighborhood of ninety miles across to the mouth of the Yellowstone.
1990 Guns & Weapons Sept. 16/3 Today those magazines run in the neighbourhood of $75 to $100 apiece when they can be located.
2001 N.Y. Mag. 25 June 19/2 We hear the figure is somewhere in the neighborhood of $2 billion.
3. † b. U.S. A local group of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). Obsolete. rare.
a. A community; a certain number of people who live close together.
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society > society and the community > [noun] > a community > community living close together
neighbourhood1534
nabe1942
1534 R. Whittington tr. Cicero Thre Bks. Tullyes Offyces i. sig. D.2 The knotte of companye of kynred or neyghberhode is more strayte.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 150 In a great Towne..there is not that Fellowship..which is in lesse Neighbourhoods.
1699 E. Ward London Spy I. viii. 12 Unlike the rest of Mankind, he hates Peace in his Neighbourhood.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 49. ⁋3 Those little Communities which we express by the Word Neighbourhoods.
1774 G. White Let. 2 Sept. in Nat. Hist. Selborne (1789) 103 [Whitethroats] are shy and wild in breeding-time, avoiding neighbourhoods, and haunting lonely lanes.
1812 S. T. Coleridge Friend (rev. ed.) 142 Men remain in the domestic State and form Neighbourhoods [1809 Neighbourhood], but not Governments.
a1882 R. W. Emerson in B. A. Hinsdale Garfield & Educ. (1882) ii. 413 The banian of the forest, yielding shade and fruit to wide neighborhoods of men.
1987 Christian Aid News 7 Jan. 6/2 It is a blend of church, neighbourhood and union organisations to whom the story of the Exodus is an everyday reality and inspiration.
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society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > neighbours > [noun]
neighbourhood1876
1876 L. Coffin Reminisc. 124 Ellis had never been a slave, had always lived in a neighborhood of Friends, where he was respected and kindly treated.
1883 Cent. Mag. Oct. 856/2 This movement led to the establishment of a neighborhood of Friends in the streets leading from Chatham Square.
a. As a mass noun: company, neighbours. Obsolete.
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society > society and the community > social relations > [noun] > circles or sources of acquaintance
society1579
neighbourhood1596
conversation1620
connection1767
1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. v. sig. Dd3v A little Hermitage there lay, Far from all neighbourhood . View more context for this quotation
a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. xi. 97 A Member of a..Corporation.., consisting of his Neighbourhood and Acquaintance.
1800 J. Jebb Let. 29 May in J. Jebb & A. Knox Thirty Years' Corr. (1834) I. 3 Immediate neighbourhood I have none, save one family.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters xvi. 351 They had been known, each in his own circle of neighbourhood.
b. A nearby region or place. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun] > that which or one who is near > a near place
neighbourhood1637
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > place of resort > [noun] > usual haunt
reseta1325
hauntc1330
walka1425
neighbourhood1637
topic1650
office1699
1637 J. Milton Comus 11 I know..Every boskie bourne from side to side My dailie walks and ancient neighbourhood.
5. Mathematics.
a. The set of points of a topological space whose distance from a given point is less than, or is less than or equal to, some non-zero (usually small) value.The neighbourhood of a given point is sometimes taken to include the point itself.
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the world > relative properties > number > geometry > point > [noun] > sets or groups of points
umbilic point1586
involution1847
triad1850
range1859
point group1887
tetrad1889
tristigm1889
neighbourhood1891
trinode1891
trigraphy1895
Cantor set1902
web1909
limit cycle1918
Leech lattice1968
1891 G. L. Cathcart tr. A. Harnack Introd. Study Elem. Differential & Integral Calculus I. v. 26 We have attained the conception of the Region or Neighbourhood of a point. By it we mean an arbitrarily small but still always finite interval at both sides of the value x.
1921 H. S. Carslaw Introd. Theory Fourier's Series & Integrals (ed. 2) iii. 52 Sometimes the neighbourhood is meant to include the point x = a itself. In this case it is defined by |x − a| ≦ h.
1939 M. H. A. Newman Elem. Topol. Plane Sets of Points ii. 20 If a is a point of a space with the metric ρ, and ε any positive number, the set of all points, x, satisfying ρ(x, a) < ε is called a spherical neighbourhood, and more particularly an ε-neighbourhood of a.
1956 E. M. Patterson Topol. ii. 22 A convenient way of describing continuity is to introduce the idea of neighbourhood... The set of points whose coordinates x satisfy |x − x0| < ε is called the ε-neighbourhood of x0; it consists of all points whose distance from x0 is less than ε.
1971 M. Gemignani Introd. Real Anal. iii. 32 We denote the p-neighborhood of a by N(a, p). (Thus, N(a, p) consists of all real numbers within distance p of a.)
1989 W. Gellert et al. VNR Conc. Encycl. Math. (ed. 2) xxxiv. 686 A subset X of M is open if for every element p of X there is an ε-neighbourhood of p entirely contained in X.
b. An open set containing a given point or non-empty set; (also) a set containing such an open set.
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the world > relative properties > number > mathematical number or quantity > numerical arrangement > [noun] > set > in abstract algebra
coset1910
superset1917
neighbourhood1934
orbit1939
support1952
1934 C. C. Krieger tr. W. Sierpínski Introd. Gen. Topol. ii. 33 We shall understand by a neighbourhood of an element a any open set containing a.
1946 E. Lehmer tr. L. S. Pontryagin Topol. Groups ii. 28 We shall give a method of defining a topological space by means of neighborhoods rather than by means of the operation of closure.
1964 W. J. Pervin Found. Gen. Topol. iii. 45 A set is open iff it is a neighborhood of each of its points.
1983 T. W. Gamelin & R. E. Greene Introd. Topol. ii. 61 A subset S of X is a neighbourhood of a point x if there is an open set U such that x is an element of U and U is a subset of S.
1990 T. Petrie & J. Randall Connections, Definite Forms, & Four-manifolds i. 5 An open neighbourhood of each of these singular points is cut away to give a manifold-with-boundary W.
II. Abstract uses.
6.
a. Friendly relations between neighbours; neighbourly feeling or conduct. Now rare.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [noun] > friendly relations between neighbours
neighboureda1200
neighbourshipa1325
neighbourhead?a1425
neighbourhood?a1425
good neighbourhood1534
neighbourlinessa1618
good neighbourship1693
good-neighbourliness1839
neighbouring1942
?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 137 (MED) Myn eendlees goodnesse..makeþ hem conceyue verry real vertues, groundid in þe pure charite of neiȝborhood.
c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 512 To bere him anentis his fadir and modir more and other wise than the hiȝest degre of neiȝborehode askith.
1503 in Surtees Misc. (1890) 3c Accordyng to olde neghburode and gude custome.
1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Evv We se muche neyghbourhode and good will to helpe the needie.
1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. liii. 241 Exiling hence wel-neere all Troth, meete Sports, & Neighbourhood.
1611 W. Vaughan Spirit of Detraction 81 Then farewell kinde neighbour-hood, farewell good fellowship.
1650 Bp. J. Taylor Rule & Exercises Holy Living i. §1. 8 Works of nature, recreation, charitie, friendlinesse and neighbourhood.
1708 J. Swift Sentiments Church of Eng.-man ii, in Misc. (1711) 149 All the Laws of Charity, Neighbourhood, Allyance and Hospitality.
1796 E. Burke Thoughts Prospect Regicide Peace i. 52 There is a Law of Neighbourhood which does not leave a man perfect master on his own ground.
1842 T. Campbell Pilgrim Glencoe 139 He stood With neighbours on kind terms of neighbourhood.
1854 N. Hawthorne Jrnl. 19 Oct. in Eng. Notebks. (1997) I. ii. 143 A closer feeling of brotherhood, a more efficient sense of neighborhood, than exists among ourselves.
1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland ii. xiii. 55 Once neighbours, always neighbours. Neighbourhood with them was like marriage with us. Neighbours remained neighbours till death did them part.
1990 M. Key & O. Stevenson Age & Vulnerability (BNC) 38 One should not therefore underestimate the importance of neighbourhood to such old people.
b. With modifying adjective. Good, ill, etc., relations between neighbours. Now chiefly in good neighbourhood n.
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1574 E. Hellowes tr. A. de Guevara Familiar Epist. 197 The Duke of Sogorbe, and the Monkes..did vse euil neighbourhod.
1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies vii. viii. 515 They practised against the Mexicaines their neighbours, all the ill neighbourhood they could.
1690 Instructions Agents Massachusetts Bay in Andros Tracts (1874) III. 60 The great inconvenience we are under by the ill neighbourhood of the French in Canada.
1765 W. Warburton Divine Legation Moses (ed. 4) IV. v. ii. 204 They had a single instance of his ill neighbourhood, much to their cost.
1828 E. Irving Doctr. Incarnation Opened iv. in Writings (1865) V. 277 That He should endure the vile contact and evil neighbourhood of every wickedness.
1890 Monthly Chron. North Country Lore & Legend Sept. 404/2 These clans cultivated and cherished feelings of rivalry and ill-neighbourhood.
1904 Home Counties Mag. 6 275 A ‘Complaint’ of several acts of ill-neighbourhood.
7. † b. Situation in respect of surroundings. Obsolete. rare.
a. The quality, condition, or fact of being situated near to someone or something, or of being neighbours; nearness, proximity. Now archaic and rare.
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the world > space > distance > nearness > [noun]
sideOE
nighnessOE
propinquity?a1425
neighboured1440
neighbourshipc1485
nearnessc1545
vicinity1560
neighbourhood1567
proximity1579
affinity1612
appropinquity1646
voisinage1665
vicinage1686
proximation1802
proximateness1881
1567 J. Maplet Greene Forest f. 11 The Jacinct is blew, and of nigh neighborhoode with the Saphire.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 132 To these also may be added for neighbourhoode sake..the Monasterie of S. Radegundes.
1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 156 Where..with most ease, because of the neighbour-hoode of the heart.., the blood might be altred.
1652 M. Nedham tr. J. Selden Of Dominion of Sea 35 Both by reason of their neighborhood, and the frequent convers of the Israelits among them.
1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 279 The Turks whose Neighbourhood to Sicily, &c. he liked not.
1748 D. Hume Ess. Moral & Polit. (ed. 3) I. xxiv. 280 The Neighbourhood of the Sun inflames the Imagination of Men.
1835 E. Bulwer-Lytton Rienzi III. x. ix. 333 Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.
1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest IV. xvii. 72 The South..was, through its neighbourhood and intercourse with Gaul, somewhat less savage.
1884 E. A. Abbott Flatland ii. xiii. 56 In Lineland..neighbourhood is needless for the union of hearts.
1915 W. S. Maugham Of Human Bondage xxxiii. 144 The heat was tempered by the neighbourhood of the sea.
1956 R. Knox Window in Wall xi. 67 We men, at the mere neighbourhood of him, pass judgement on ourselves.
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the world > space > place > position or situation > [noun] > actually occupied > in respect of surroundings
site?c1400
situationc1485
standing1538
seat1549
neighbourhood1668
emplacement1780
1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) ii. ix. 117 The Vena arteriosa..is just like the Aorta in substance, largeness, neighbourhood, and Valves.
Compounds
C1.
a. General attributive (chiefly North American).
(a) With the sense ‘serving a particular neighbourhood, belonging to a neighbourhood’.
neighbourhood bookie n.
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1971 Black Scholar June 6/1 A man of some kind is usually around. He may be a boyfriend, an uncle or just the neighborhood bookie.
neighbourhood bookstore n.
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1924 N.Y. Times 20 July 18/5 (advt.) Baker & Taylor Co. Book Service. Get Acquainted With Your Neighborhood Bookstore. Why ‘send away’ for your books?
1973 N.Y. Law Jrnl. 17 Apr. Each appellant managed a large neighborhood bookstore.
1995 N.Y. Times Bk. Rev. 30 July 3/1 I recently spent the better part of a..morning leafing through novel substitutes at my neighborhood bookstore.
neighbourhood council n.
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1973 Guardian 24 Dec. 13/6 The idea of neighbourhood councils or ‘community councils’ or ‘urban parish councils’ is based on the simple proposition that there is no urban equivalent of the rural parish council and that there should be.
2002 D. Aitkenhead Promised Land xx. 198 Faith in rampant commercial growth had been replaced by belief in a city run by neighbourhood councils.
neighbourhood grocery n.
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1966 B. H. Deal Fancy's Knell v. 67 The supermarkets had killed the neighborhood grocery.
1975 E. Welty Little Store in I. Hamilton Penguin Bk. 20th-cent. Ess. (1999) 199 We weren't being sent to the neighbourhood grocery for facts of life, or death.
neighbourhood market n.
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1938 Richmond (Va.) News-leader 28 Sept. 1/3 The rush of tobacco to market has operated greatly to the advantage of the smaller towns of the belt. Leaf that once was sold in the big centers of North Carolina and Virginia is overflowing into the neighborhood markets.
2001 Vogue (U.S. ed.) Mar. 384/2 Mahfoud, Souika's Moroccan houseman and cook, takes guests to neighborhood markets and souks as he shops for dinner.
neighbourhood meeting n.
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the mind > language > speech > conversation > [noun] > conferring or consulting > a conference > particular types of
parliament?a1400
diet1471
symposiac1603
by-conference1625
guestling1629
sanhedrim1653
comitia1684
symposium1784
assembly1794
powwow1812
neighbourhood meeting1823
colloquium1861
congress1861
party conference1875
indaba1894
press conference1908
case conference1913
story conference1920
telemeeting1973
poster session1974
START1981
presser1988
1823 S. Huntington Mem. (1826) 348 The neighbourhood meeting for this quarter of the city.
1992 Canad. Dimension Nov.–Dec. 8/3 Through a series of public forums, rallies, demos, cultural events, teach-ins, and neighbourhood meetings, the ACN and its member organizations hope to broaden the social base for progressive party politics.
neighbourhood park n.
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1961 L. Mumford City in Hist. xvi. 502 The neighborhood park, conceived either as a Greenbelt around the neighborhood,..or as a ribbon of internal green.
1972 Village Voice (N.Y.) 1 June 16/3 Proceeds of the fair will help the association purchase two vacant lots to be developed into a neighborhood park.
1992 Canad. Geographic Jan. 74/2 Around the block from a corner store and near a no-frills neighbourhood park is an expansive warehouse where federal public works crews hang their hats.
neighbourhood party n.
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society > leisure > social event > social gathering > party > [noun] > other parties
play-party1796
tail1837
surprise-party1840
street party1845
costume party1850
pound party1869
all-nighter1870
neighbourhood party1870
simcha1874
ceilidh1875
studio party1875
pounding1883
house party1885
private function1888
shower1893
kitchen shower1896
kitchen evening1902
bottle party1903
pyjama party1910
block party1919
house party1923
after-party1943
slumber party1949
office party1950
freeload1952
hukilau1954
BYOB1959
pot party1959
bush party1962
BYO1965
wrap party1978
bop1982
warehouse party1988
rave1989
1870 A. D. T. Whitney We Girls xi. 194 I daresay Miss Pennington will have her neighborhood parties again.
1992 Cent. Home Feb. 61/3 Most in-home sales today are achieved through the neighbourhood ‘party’.
neighbourhood shop n.
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1966 B. H. Deal Fancy's Knell v. 67 The shopping centers had killed the neighborhood shops.
1990 V. Klinkenborg Last Fine Time v. 124 At the Statler any downstate tonsorial wrinkle is likely to turn up sooner than out in the neighborhood shops.
neighbourhood shopping centre n.
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1961 Listener 28 Sept. 471/1 Strong neighbourhood shopping centres.
1962 Appraisal Terminol. & Handbk. (Amer. Inst. Real Estate Appraisers) (ed. 4) 130 Neighborhood shopping center, a tract of land improved with a co-ordinated group of retail buildings with a limited variety of convenience goods and service facilities..catering to a limited trade area.
neighbourhood store n.
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1859 De Bow's Rev. Mar. 276 The fine landings on the river now enable farmers to dispense with neighborhood stores and villages altogether.
1949 E. S. Gardner in Argosy Apr. 108/3 In that district of small neighbourhood stores, he's in a position to keep irregular hours.
1990 Wilson Q. Autumn 30/2 Housewives and other shoppers rely on the neighborhood stores and the local shotengai, or shopping arcade.
(b) With the sense ‘between neighbourhoods’.
neighbourhood war n.
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society > armed hostility > war > types of war > [noun] > civil war
civil wara1533
neighbourhood war1887
1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages I. ii. 60 Torn with unceasing and savage neighborhood-war.
1988 ‘J. Norst’ Colors iii. 35 Switchblades,..sawed-off shotguns,..defused homemade bombs, and other trophies of the neighborhood wars.
b.
neighbourhood centre n. Town Planning the centre of a residential area in a planned town, esp. as the location for amenities.
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1961 Listener 28 Sept. 470/3 The idea that a neighbourhood centre was a sort of rag-bag where you put all the social functions if you could not find anywhere else to put them.
1998 Town & Country Planning 67 175/2 Sample studies looked at the potential for ‘clustering’ of higher densities around neighbourhood centres.
neighbourhood friendly n. U.S. colloquial a well-known local shop; a neighbourhood shop.
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society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > small shop > local
convenience store1902
duka1912
dairy1914
sari-sari store1925
café1957
corner shop1963
neighbourhood friendly1970
depanneur1975
kirana1979
1970 J. Hansen Fadeout (1972) xx. 167 But those envelopes were there. Nine of them. The kind you buy at your neighbourhood friendly. In packs of a dozen.
neighbourhood road n. U.S. (now regional) a local road, esp. one in a rural area, maintained by its users.
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1835 W. G. Simms Partisan II. xxviii. 266 A small track—a common wagon or neighborhood road—wound into the forest.
1884 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier 395 The buggy was moving at a quiet jog along a ‘neighborhood road’.
1981 L. A. Pederson et al. Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0525A/031 Neighbourhood road—two or three local families kept it up.
neighbourhood school n. a local school; (U.S.) (spec. in early use) an elementary school in a rural area.
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society > education > place of education > [noun] > educational institution > other types of
academya1583
military school1673
evening school1742
city farm1750
night school1780
school ship1785
neighbourhood school1842
academy school1852
writing school1928
juku1962
1842 Southern Literary Messenger 8 65/1 As this was what is called a ‘neighborhood school’, the pupils necessarily came from a great distance.
1954 H. C. Dent in R. Pedley Comprehensive Schools Today ii. ii. 38 By definition a comprehensive school is a ‘neighbourhood’ school.
1991 Canberra Times 31 Jan. 3/3 Police have warned Canberra motorists to take particular care when passing busy neighbourhood schools.
neighbourhood unit n. Town Planning a residential area in a planned town, including shops, a school, and other community amenities.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town > [noun] > parts of town
panec1400
retinue1535
new town1600
town centre1836
Middletown1855
neighbourhood unit1929
1929 C. A. Perry in Neighbourhood & Community Planning xii. 123/1 Only large subdividers and strong corporations will be able to plan and construct complete neighborhood units.
1943 Archit. Rev. 93 91/1 Five such residential units make up into one neighbourhood unit of approximately a thousand families.
1986 A. Ravetz Govt. of Space iii. 53 The superblocks allowed children to walk in freedom and safety to the school that served each neighbourhood unit.
neighbourhood watch n. originally U.S. (a programme of) systematic vigilance by local people in order to combat crime in their neighbourhood; frequently attributive designating such a programme, the area covered by it, etc.
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the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > watching or keeping guard > [noun] > guarding the streets > by the citizens of a neighbourhood
crime watch1969
neighbourhood watch1972
1972 National Sheriff Aug.–Sept. 9 Materials and related techniques designed to encourage local citizens to be alert to..circumstances which may prevent as well as indicate a burglary or larceny [sic], and to take appropriate actions are being developed... The program will be known as the National Neighborhood Watch Program.
1986 New Socialist Sept. 5/1 Neighbourhood watch schemes are catching on fast. In January a Home Office minister said 8,000 schemes were in operation.
1998 Ashmolean Spring 22/1 It didn't take long before a neighbourhood watch representative came out to find out my intentions.
C2. colloquial. the (also your, etc.) friendly neighbourhood ——: a well-known local ——. Frequently ironic.
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the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > social intercourse or companionship > [adjective] > neighbourly > well-known local person or thing
the (also your, etc.) friendly neighbourhood ——1955
1955 W. Gaddis Recognitions ii. ii. 366 Just tell Mummy to ask about Cuff next time she visits her friendly neighborhood druggist.
1968 Peace News 25 Oct. 7 (heading) Your friendly neighbourhood senior detective officer.
1973 ‘R. MacLeod’ Nest of Vultures vii. 154 I feel like I've just made a date with the friendly neighbourhood vampire.
1980 Maledicta Summer 6 They become acceptable even to..your friendly neighbourhood bigot.
1990 Freelance Writing & Photogr. Winter 4/2 Maybe there is a statue to a person of local importance outside your friendly neighbourhood Town Hall.
2000 Ralph 7 July 60/3 Ian and his mates needed cars for robberies, ferrying the hot gear, then dropping in on their friendly neighbourhood drug dealer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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