neighbourhood
Britishnoun
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the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity
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a district where people live
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the people in a particular area; neighbours
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neighbourly feeling
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maths the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than a specified value
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(modifier) of or for a neighbourhood
a neighbourhood community worker
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approximately (a given number)
Example Sentences
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The couple chose the Jackson Park neighbourhood on the South Side for the 19.3-acre campus, near their Windy City home ahead of moving to the White House.
From BBC • Jun. 18, 2026
In one heavily damaged neighbourhood, Rana Nasrallah surveyed her destroyed home, the rubble strewn with clothes, furniture and pot plants.
From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026
By the time we arrived in Sundar Nagri, a lower middle-class neighbourhood in east Delhi's Seelampur area, it was past 5pm and the sun was beginning to lose some of its sting.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
"I think there's been a change in the past 16 years. In this neighbourhood… four- or five-child families are no longer rare," Maté says.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
My father belonged to a loosely knit group of black families in the neighbourhood to whom tribal traditions were a way of life, and who sought to bring up their offspring according to its laws.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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