neighborhood

American  

[ney-ber-hood] / ˈneɪ bərˌhʊd /

noun

1. 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.

2. 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

3. a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality.

   The whole neighborhood was there.

4. neighborly feeling or conduct.

5. nearness; proximity.

   to sense the neighborhood of trouble.

6. Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.

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idioms

1. in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about.

   She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.

Etymology

Origin of neighborhood

First recorded in 1400–50, neighborhood is from the late Middle English word neighborehode. See neighbor, -hood

Example Sentences

At the annual meeting of San Francisco’s ritzy Marina neighborhood last fall, residents buzzed about the hottest property in their nook of the city: a giant, aging Safeway grocery store.

From The Wall Street Journal

Ruth Buffalo, chief executive of the Minnesota Indian Women’s Resource Center, said her office building locked down Wednesday because of ICE activity in the neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

One of those was a neighborhood restaurant he visited weekly, where he knew the staff by name and followed their lives.

From The Wall Street Journal

Economists William Collins and Robert Margo studied the economic consequences of violent unrest more directly by comparing cities and neighborhoods that experienced major riots in the late 1960s with otherwise similar places that didn’t.

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After protesting the killings in Tiananmen Square, X was reduced to telling fortunes in a decaying neighborhood.

From The Wall Street Journal

Related Words

• area
• block
• district
• parish
• part
• precinct
• region
• section
• street
• suburb
• territory
• zone