neighborhoodn.[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.(Jer. Taylor.)()