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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.
Neighbourhood definition: the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity. See examples of NEIGHBOURHOOD used in a sentence.
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
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.
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.
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.
neighborhood. 1. the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity. 2. a district where people live. 3. the people in a particular area; neighbours. 4. neighbourly feeling. 5. (Mathematics) maths the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than a specified value.
