Definition of Neighborhood in English :

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Neighborhood meaning in English

Meaning of Neighborhood in English

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Neighborhood pronunciation in English

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Neighborhood

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Noun

1. locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity

a surrounding or nearby region

Example Sentences:
'the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville'
'it is a rugged locality'
'he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood'
'I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods'

2. neighborhood, neighbourhood

people living near one another

Example Sentences:
'it is a friendly neighborhood'
'my neighborhood voted for Bush'

3. neighborhood, region

the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in in the region of')

Example Sentences:
'it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job'
'the price is in the neighborhood of $100'

4. neighborhood

an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)

Example Sentences:
'an ethnic neighborhood'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Neighborhood

see synonyms of neighborhood
noun
1.  Archaic
friendly relations, as of neighbors; neighborliness
2. 
the state or quality of being neighbors
3. 
a community, district, or area, esp. with regard to some characteristic or point of reference
an old neighborhood
4. 
the people living near one another; community
the whole neighborhood pitched in and helped during the flood
5.  Ancient Mathematics
the set of all points which lie within a stated distance of a given point

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Neighborhood

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n.
1. A district or area with distinctive characteristics: a neighborhood of fine homes; a working-class neighborhood.
2. The people who live near one another or in a particular district or area: The noise upset the entire neighborhood.
3. The surrounding area; vicinity: happened to be in the neighborhood.
4. Informal Approximate amount or range: in the neighborhood of five million dollars.
5. Friendliness appropriate to a neighbor: a feeling of neighborhood.
6. Mathematics The set of points surrounding a specified point, each of which is within a certain, usually small distance from the specified point.

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