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)
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By the early 2020s, an estimated 50,000 people lived here, external, having made a neighbourhood out of a place they had little choice but to inhabit.
From BBC ● Nov. 3, 2026
Talarico taught at a middle school in San Antonio, in a neighbourhood he has described as one of the poorest in the state.
From BBC ● Nov. 2, 2026
He told AFP he was surprised to hear Friday's assailants came from the neighbourhood, which he described as middle-class and law-abiding.
From Barron's ● Oct. 24, 2026
Nikos Mavroudis, a 17-year-old high school student in Athens' Exarchia neighbourhood, said the money could be better spent on his school, where chunks of plaster are falling.
From Barron's ● Oct. 23, 2026
The tidings of my high fortunes having had a heavy fall had got down to my native place and its neighbourhood before I got there.
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
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