Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for NEIGH'BOR-HOOD
NEIGH'BOR-HOOD, n.
- A place near; vicinity; the adjoining district or any place not distant. He lives in my neighborhood.
- State of being near each other; as, several states in a neighborhood. Swift.
- The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other. The fire alarmed all the neighborhood.
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