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- Dictionaryneighbourhood/ˈneɪbəhʊd/
noun
- 1. a district or community within a town or city: "she lived in a wealthy neighbourhood of Boston" Similar
- 2. the set of points whose distance from a given point is less than (or less than or equal to) some value.
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the area of a town that surrounds someone's home, or the people who live in this area: There were lots of kids in my neighbourhood when I was growing up. They live in a wealthy / poor / friendly neighbourhood. I wouldn't like to live in the neighbourhood of (= in the area around) an airport. Fewer examples. We live in a middle class neighbourhood.
The neighbourhood of a place or person is the area or the people around them. He was born and grew up in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn. I feel a part of my immediate neighbourhood.
Neighbourhood definition: the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity. See examples of NEIGHBOURHOOD used in a sentence.
a district or an area of a town; the people who live there. We grew up in the same neighbourhood. a poor/quiet/residential neighbourhood. an old working-class neighbourhood. Manhattan is divided into distinct neighborhoods. the neighbourhood police. He shouted so loudly that the whole neighbourhood could hear him. see also low traffic neighbourhood
noun. neigh· bor· hood ˈnā-bər-ˌhu̇d. Synonyms of neighborhood. 1. : neighborly relationship. … a closer feeling of brotherhood, a more efficient sense of neighborhood … Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2. : the quality or state of being neighbors : proximity. … refugees from the country, driven by fear or the neighborhood of armies. F. L. Paxson. 3. a.
neighborhood. 1. the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity. 2. a district where people live. 3. the people in a particular area; neighbours. 4. neighbourly feeling. 5. (Mathematics) maths the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than a specified value.
the area of a town that surrounds someone's home, or the people who live in this area: There were lots of kids in my neighborhood when I was growing up. They live in a wealthy / poor / friendly neighborhood. I wouldn't like to live in the neighborhood of (= in the area around) an airport. Fewer examples.
a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants: a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood. Synonyms: vicinity, locale, area, community. a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality: The whole neighborhood was there. neighborly feeling or conduct. nearness; proximity:
Definitions of neighbourhood. noun. a surrounding or nearby region. synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity. see more. noun. people living near one another. synonyms: neighborhood. see more.
How to use . neighbourhood in a sentenceWe are a troubled and fractious country, in a difficult neighbourhood.
