neighborhood
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.
Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.
Idioms about neighborhood
in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about: She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.
Origin of neighborhood
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How to use neighborhood in a sentence
Paperback publishers distributed their titles in African-American neighborhoods because it expanded their market base.
But in more middle-class and working-class neighborhoods, sessions are typically a fourth of that price.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread | IranWire | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTAnd, she added, “In other neighborhoods, I feel they are a little harsh.”
On the one hand, residents of these neighborhoods complain of over-policing.
Residents of the neighborhoods where cops are needed the most are mixed on the impact of the apparent slowdown.
They bought their lands and paid for them, and proceeded to establish friendly neighborhoods among the tribes.
The Indian in his Wigwam | Henry R. SchoolcraftIt was an unknown or a long-forgotten voice in those neighborhoods, but none who heard it needed to have it explained.
Kings in Exile | Sir Charles George Douglas RobertsMunition work had to be undertaken in neighborhoods largely agricultural.
There is indeed much destitution of moral influence and means of instruction in many, very many, neighborhoods of the West.
A New Guide for Emigrants to the West | J. M. PeckObed lived in one of the farm neighborhoods near Medfield, a town famous in King Philip's war.
Harper's Round Table, October 29, 1895 | Various
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