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neighborhood

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The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.

A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.

The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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I'd worship the ground you walked on if only you walked in a better neighborhood. Billy Wilder

I celebrated Thanksgiving in an old-fashioned way. I invited everyone in my neighborhood to my house, we had an enormous feast, and then I killed them and took their land. Jon Stewart

Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies. Jane Austen

Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000. Anthony Burgess

Don't buy the house, buy the neighborhood. Russian Proverb

A wife and a nag, choose them from your neighborhood. Sicilian Proverb

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