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noun

the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.

a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants: a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood.

a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality: The whole neighborhood was there.

neighborly feeling or conduct.

nearness; proximity: to sense the neighborhood of trouble.

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Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.

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Idiom

in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about: She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.

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Origin:
1400–50; late Middle English neighborehode. See neighbor, -hood

Synonyms
2. community, area, locale, vicinity.

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Example Sentences

What defines a building or an apartment as special can vary by neighborhood.

We live in a friendly neighborhood and know the parents of our kids' friends.

So the hip restaurant in my neighborhood is packed with people spending money while the less trendy fade away.

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What defines a building or an apartment as special can vary by neighborhood.

We live in a friendly neighborhood and know the parents of our kids' friends.

So the hip restaurant in my neighborhood is packed with people spending money while the less trendy fade away.

In this lesson, students will prepare an oral presentation to describe the changes in a neighborhood over a period of years.

Fresh data from ground-based telescopes indicate that a prevailing view of the solar neighborhood needs revision.

The idea that two women in one neighborhood were addicted to a soft drink stunned me.

Savor a true neighborhood from a porch off the bungalow more.

The idea is that you can use this bike to do anything a car could do in your neighborhood.

We found the reason behind the neighborhood stink yesterday.

The main campus is located in a quiet residential neighborhood.

Maybe the right thing to do is to emphasize neighborhood diversity.

In addition, a planet has to dominate the neighborhood around its orbit.

Bedbug sprays sold for residential use in neighborhood stores rarely eradicate or prevent bedbugs.

Then the police said it was too dangerous to walk around the neighborhood alone toting expensive camera gear.

Hop the trolley for a fun ride through the neighborhood.

Neighborhood groups battled methadone clinics, where patients congregate daily for their meds.

My college, an urban campus in a mid-sized city, runs a grant program to help staff and faculty buy houses in the neighborhood.

There sure are a lot of ugly people in your neighborhood.

Create a map of your neighborhood with no key map elements.

In large cities, many people do not know their neighbors, even though they may have lived in the same neighborhood for years.

Most of your neighborhood ice cream vendors peaceably sell frozen treats.

He has also grown accustomed to neighborhood kids stealing his sign and planting it on other people's lawns as a joke.

Nor did she quote a single student or a single resident of the target neighborhood she visited.

Local, independent businesses give a neighborhood character.

The planets would have moved out of the neighborhood long ago.

They have thanked me by cleaning the stinging and biting insects out of my neighborhood.

With the stolpersteine everybody sees that it happened in their neighborhood.

Better to pay into a fund for powerwashing the neighborhood once a year and be done with it.

Later, they started families, and the neighborhood filled up with children and stores and flowers in the windows.

They bulldozed the whole neighborhood and erected nothing.

Help your children, create a map for visitors depicting their favorite neighborhood places to play and explore.

Neighborhood kids come over to play all the time because our yard is more interesting than a flat boring lawn.

The neighborhood has been deeply affected by that horrific act of cowardice.

That's when you can find out who the real geeks in the neighborhood are.

Kevin had a story similar to those of many young men from my old neighborhood.

The guys from the neighborhood who invited me asked me to dance.

Compared to the vastness of the cosmos, this would have been a small neighborhood indeed.

Capitol, the small neighborhood became a cornerstone of the city.

The neighborhood is adjacent to the city's financial district.

In his spare time, he practices judo and gardens organically, and he has started a local-food project in his neighborhood.

Though this species is formidable it's not the top dog in the neighborhood.

Every day our neighborhood appears a bit more crowded--and dangerous.

Customers are clamoring to get the high-speed service in their neighborhood.

Please try and interpret this in the context and in the neighborhood where my sister lives.

Imagine that you are a police officer in a tough neighborhood where the criminals are heavily armed.

People streamed out onto the sidewalks and into neighborhood cafes as buildings were evacuated as a precautionary measure.

And it could help thin the population of neighborhood children.

The universe is a mighty big place, but there is no shortage of amazement right here in our celestial neighborhood.

Enjoy local flavor in this uncrowded and low-key neighborhood.

Once neglected, this spot has become the focal point of the neighborhood.

From the sanitized safety of the industrialized world, it's hard to imagine how any neighborhood or tribe could hold such views.

Sporting goods/camping gear/boating/bicycle stores are in every neighborhood.

Compare your neighborhood with another nearby neighborhood.

Solar on large flat commercial roofs in every neighborhood is cheap.

And it's in a neighborhood that is raging with giant street.

So they go vacant and decay and the whole neighborhood goes down.

Gather beautiful individual leaves during a walk in the country or neighborhood.

In the neighborhood of other decent state university systems.

Remember, they are not poor enough to enjoy an economist's subsidy to relocate to a higher income neighborhood.

Talk about what those signs might be in your neighborhood.

So her neighborhood preservation project became part guidebook and part cookbook, full of recipes from the shopkeepers.

They hit a suburban neighborhood to find the place eerily deserted.

And ask any neighborhood child: likely one of any two of your neighbors are a bit loony.

Find a neighborhood garden where flower shoots are sprouting.

In our neighborhood fiddler crabs often group together in the street, especially at the entrance to the development.

Puffer-fish light fixtures hang from the ceiling and locals shoot pool in the back of this neighborhood bar.

Gear up for adventure and examine their neighborhood through and through with our all-in-one kit.

Our neighborhood is surrounded by farmland on one side and a heavily wooded military reserve on the other.

Lemon, pomegranate and avocado trees were common in the neighborhood.

Flora's neighborhood nursery soon became a source of design inspiration for gardeners and landscape designers.

Then they gave me a job to pay it all off and live in a nice neighborhood.

If you don't, you could find yourself stuck in a bad neighborhood in an even worse hotel.

Rocket into this game to explore our space neighborhood.

As you move about the neighborhood you read the other parts of the story.

The best way to go abroad is to buy a good pair of shoes and go walking in your neighborhood.

Underneath a neighborhood in the southeastern part of town lies a groundwater plume contaminated with chlorinated.

We prefer, however, the simple butchers and green grocers in our neighborhood.

One of these highways eliminated a beautiful parkway sending an upper income neighborhood into decline.

It's a real neighborhood in the city-and one that is going through changes.

We live in a neighborhood where there are woods, streams, and the sea nearby.

There are enough non-sentient humans living in my neighborhood already.

By dawn, the trickle that began to seep into the neighborhood during the night had become a scalding torrent.

My daughter also has a friend in her neighborhood who has four children.

Continue past a slew of independent art galleries and witness the slow gentrification of a once ramshackle neighborhood.

We are in the neighborhood and have a plan to find.

All one needs to do is take a drive through a low income neighborhood and you'll find a smorgasbord of fast food joints.

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World English Dictionary

neighbourhood or (US) neighborhood (ˈneɪbəˌhʊd)

—n
1.	the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinityRelated: vicinal
2.	a district where people live
3.	the people in a particular area; neighbours
4.	neighbourly feeling
5.	maths the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than a specified value
6.	(modifier) of or for a neighbourhood: a neighbourhood community worker
7.	in the neighbourhood of approximately (a given number)

Related: vicinal

neighborhood or (US) neighborhood

—n

Related: vicinal

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Word Origin & History

neighborhood

mid-15c., "neighborly conduct, friendliness," from neighbor + -hood (q.v.). Modern sense of "community of people who live close together" is first recorded 1620s. Phrase in the neighborhood of meaning "near, somewhere about" is first recorded

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1857, Amer.Eng. The O.E. word for "neighborhood" was neahdæl.

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"Passing through here in 1795, Bishop Asbury commented, 'The country improves in cultivation, wickedness, mills, and stills.' Five years later, he held a meeting in the neighborhood and remarked that he thought most of the congregation had come to look at his wig."

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