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- Neighborhood - n. - The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
- Neighborhood - n. - A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
- Neighborhood - n. - The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
- Neighborhood - n. - The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
- Node - n. - A hard concretion or incrustation which forms upon bones attacked with rheumatism, gout, or syphilis; sometimes also, a swelling in the neighborhood of a joint.
- Circumdenudation - n. - Denudation around or in the neighborhood of an object.
- Presence - n. - The place in which one is present; the part of space within one's ken, call, influence, etc.; neighborhood without the intervention of anything that forbids intercourse.
- About - prep. - In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one's person).
- Presence - n. - Specifically, neighborhood to the person of one of superior of exalted rank; also, presence chamber.
- From - prep. - Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; -- the aritithesis and correlative of to; as, it, is one hundred miles from Boston to Springfield; he took his sword from his side; light proceeds from the sun; separate the coarse wool from the fine; men have all sprung from Adam, and often go from good to bad, and from bad to worse; the merit of an action depends on the principle from which it proceeds; men judge of facts from personal knowledge, or from testimony.
- Lienculus - n. - One of the small nodules sometimes found in the neighborhood of the spleen; an accessory or supplementary spleen.
- Upland - a. - Pertaining to the country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns; rustic; rude; unpolished.
- Therapeutae - n. pl. - A name given to certain ascetics said to have anciently dwelt in the neighborhood of Alexandria. They are described in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.
- Faculae - n. pl. - Groups of small shining spots on the surface of the sun which are brighter than the other parts of the photosphere. They are generally seen in the neighborhood of the dark spots, and are supposed to be elevated portions of the photosphere.
- Upland - n. - The country, as distinguished from the neighborhood of towns.
- Venue - n. - A neighborhood or near place; the place or county in which anything is alleged to have happened; also, the place where an action is laid.
- Slum - n. - A foul back street of a city, especially one filled with a poor, dirty, degraded, and often vicious population; any low neighborhood or dark retreat; -- usually in the plural; as, Westminster slums are haunts for theives.
- By - pref. - In the neighborhood of; near or next to; not far from; close to; along with; as, come and sit by me.