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neighborhood

[ ney-ber-hood ]
/ ˈneɪ bərˌhʊd /
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noun

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.

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Idioms for neighborhood

    in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about: She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.

Origin of neighborhood

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

Words nearby neighborhood

nehru, nehru, jawaharlal, nei mongol, neigh, neighbor, neighborhood, neighborhood watch, neighboring, neighborly, neighbour, neighbourhood
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Words related to in the neighborhood of

almost, generally, roughly, relatively, essentially, around, practically, approximately, most, much, virtually, about, near, well-nigh, nigh, circa, closely, comparatively, loosely, proximately

Idioms and Phrases with in the neighborhood of

in the neighborhood of

Also, in the region of. Approximately, about, as in They paid in the neighborhood of a million dollars, or I don't know exactly what the exchange rate is—somewhere in the region of 95 yen to the dollar. The first expression dates from the mid-1800s, the variant from the mid-1900s.

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