Noun

(chiefly, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.

''Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.

* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 399-402:

Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood , the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.

* 1835 , , Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes :

Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood .

Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.

He lives in my neighborhood .

The inhabitants of a residential area.

''The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood .

An approximate amount.

He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

The quality of physical proximity.

The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood .

(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

(topology) An open set which contains the point in question.

(topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.

(label) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

(topology) A set containing an open set which contains point in question.

(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

Noun

(wikipedia town) (en noun)

A settlement; an area with residential districts, shops and amenities, and its own local government; especially one larger than a village and smaller than a city.

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Any more urbanized center than the place of reference.

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A rural settlement in which a market was held at least once a week.

The residents (as opposed to (gown): the students, faculty, etc.) of a community which is the site of a university.

(label) (Used to refer to a town or similar entity under discussion).

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(label) A municipal organization, such as a corporation, defined by the laws of the entity of which it is a part.

(label) An enclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor.

(label) The whole of the land which constituted the domain.

(label) A collection of houses enclosed by fences or walls.

(Palsgrave)

A farm or farmstead; also, a court or farmyard.