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- Dictionaryneighbourhood/ˈneɪbəhʊd/
noun
- 1. a district or community within a town or city: "she lived in a wealthy neighbourhood of Boston" Similar
- 2. the set of points whose distance from a given point is less than (or less than or equal to) some value.
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an area of a town, or the people who live or work in this area: The company aims to set up a nursery school in every neighbourhood. The $150 million bond issue will eventually yield grants aimed at revitalizing commercial corridors in the city's neighborhoods. low-/middle-/upper-income neighbourhoods. in the neighbourhood of sth.
The neighbourhood of a place or person is the area or the people around them. He was born and grew up in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn. I feel a part of my immediate neighbourhood.
a district or an area of a town; the people who live there. We grew up in the same neighbourhood. a poor/quiet/residential neighbourhood. an old working-class neighbourhood. Manhattan is divided into distinct neighborhoods. the neighbourhood police. He shouted so loudly that the whole neighbourhood could hear him. see also low traffic neighbourhood
Neighbourhood definition: the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity. See examples of NEIGHBOURHOOD used in a sentence.
neighborhood. noun. neigh· bor· hood ˈnā-bər-ˌhu̇d. Synonyms of neighborhood. 1. : neighborly relationship. … a closer feeling of brotherhood, a more efficient sense of neighborhood … Nathaniel Hawthorne. 2. : the quality or state of being neighbors : proximity. … refugees from the country, driven by fear or the neighborhood of armies. F. L.
an area with characteristics that make it different from other areas, or the people who live in a particular area: This is a nice, quiet neighborhood, with modest single-family homes. the approximate amount of something: We hope to get something in the neighborhood of (= a price that is close to)$200,000 for our house.
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. Synonyms: vicinity, locale, area, community.
