neighbourhood

/ ˈneɪbəˌhʊd /

noun

1. the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity

2. a district where people live

3. the people in a particular area; neighbours

4. neighbourly feeling

5. maths the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than a specified value

6. (modifier) of or for a neighbourhood

   a neighbourhood community worker

7. approximately (a given number)

Example Sentences

But car enthusiast, Gemma, believes it may drive the problem to another neighbourhood.

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Braekhus was adopted from an orphanage in Cartagena at the age of two and grew up in Sandviken, a neighbourhood of Bergen.

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According to Hamas, its forces raided the neighbourhood to detain individuals accused of collaborating with Israel.

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"We used to see him around the neighbourhood and he would stop and chat, he was a very gentle, nice man."

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And with that, Nour places Sally in her pram and takes her outside, past the school, for her very first trip around their neighbourhood.

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