neighborhood

neighborhood
noun
1. a surrounding or nearby region (Freq. 28)
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the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville

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it is a rugged locality

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he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood

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I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods

• Derivationally related forms: ↑neighbour (for: ↑neighbourhood), ↑neighbor, ↑local (for: ↑locality), ↑vicinal (for: ↑vicinity)
• Hypernyms: ↑section
• Hyponyms: ↑gold coast, ↑'hood, ↑place, ↑proximity, ↑scenery
• Instance Hyponyms: ↑Left Bank, ↑Latin Quarter, ↑Montmartre, ↑Right Bank, ↑Charlestown
2. people living near one another (Freq. 14)
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it is a friendly neighborhood

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my neighborhood voted for Bush

• Syn: ↑neighbourhood
• Derivationally related forms: ↑neighbour (for: ↑neighbourhood), ↑neighbor
• Hypernyms: ↑community
• Hyponyms: ↑hood, ↑street
3. the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
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it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job

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the price is in the neighborhood of $100

• Syn: ↑region
• Hypernyms: ↑indefinite quantity
4. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
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an ethnic neighborhood

• Hypernyms: ↑area, ↑country

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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  • neighborhood — index civic, community, district, local, locality, location, region, regional, section ( …   Law dictionary

  • neighborhood — (Amer.) neigh·bor·hood || neɪbÉ™rhÊŠd n. group of houses which make up a distinct region; local area, surroundings (also neighbourhood) …   English contemporary dictionary

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  • neighborhood — [n] community, surroundings adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, nearness, neck of the woods*, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter,… …   New thesaurus

  • neighborhood — /nay beuhr hood /, n. 1. 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. 2. a district or locality, often with reference to its character or… …   Universalium

  • neighborhood — neigh|bor|hood [ neıbər,hud ] noun count *** 1. ) a particular area of a city or town: a poor/middle class/wealthy neighborhood a Chinese/Italian neighborhood a ) the people who live near each other: The whole neighborhood gets together for a… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

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