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)
Example Sentences
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"Finally, our neighbourhood is enjoyable once more without any bad smell," he said.
From BBC • Jun. 17, 2026
By the time we arrived in Sundar Nagri, a lower middle-class neighbourhood in east Delhi's Seelampur area, it was past 5pm and the sun was beginning to lose some of its sting.
From BBC • Jun. 15, 2026
At last week's World Cup warm-up against Peru in Miami, where there is a Little Haiti neighbourhood, South Florida's Haitian diaspora helped sell out the Nu Stadium.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2026
On Tuesday morning, rescuers at the ruins of what had been a neighbourhood grocery, resumed efforts to recover two store employees who were inside when the building crumpled.
From Barron's • Jun. 9, 2026
Throughout the week, on street corners, in stores, at shebeens all over the neighbourhood, the talk was about the fight, and black people everywhere were enraptured by Ali’s feats.
From "Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography" by Mark Mathabane
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