neighborhood
Americannoun
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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.
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a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants.
a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood.
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a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality.
The whole neighborhood was there.
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neighborly feeling or conduct.
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nearness; proximity.
to sense the neighborhood of trouble.
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Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.
idioms
Etymology
Origin of neighborhood
First recorded in 1400–50, neighborhood is from the late Middle English word neighborehode. See neighbor, -hood
Explanation
Use the noun neighborhood when you're talking about a community within a town or city. Getting to know the people and places in your neighborhood can make you feel right at home in a city of millions. A neighborhood can be created by lines on a map that designate a district, or it can grow over time to become a neighborhood with a certain personality, based on who lives there. You can also use neighborhood to describe something nearby, like promising to visit a friend the next time you are in the neighborhood — or something that's approximate, like a restaurants whose burgers are in the neighborhood of ten dollars.
Vocabulary lists containing neighborhood
"Familiar Places"
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Cities and Towns
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Unit 20, Lessons 3–4
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Example Sentences
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In Carmichael, we lived in a tract house in a nice neighborhood, but we were the only Black kids in town.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 9, 2026
But they all live in the same neighborhood.
From Salon • Jun. 9, 2026
When the police arrived, he fled his vehicle, escaped from the highway, and ran through our neighborhood while the police pursued by car, helicopter and on foot.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 8, 2026
Around the time Williams picked up her Beverly Hills abode, she was ready to bid goodbye to her home in the Bel-Air neighborhood.
From MarketWatch • Jun. 8, 2026
Doc drove through the neighborhood, which looked entirely more friendly in the morning.
From "Boy 2.0" by Tracey Baptiste
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
