neighborhood
/ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/noun3 syllables
Neighborhood means: a surrounding or nearby region.
Synonyms for neighborhood8
noun, as in a surrounding or nearby region
noun, as in people living near one another
noun, as in the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
also used for neighborhood
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What does neighborhood mean?4
noun
a surrounding or nearby region“the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville”
people living near one another“it is a friendly neighborhood”
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)“it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job”
an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)“an ethnic neighborhood”
Definitions from the Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Neighborhood in a sentence
- I don't leave the doors open, because there are animals in my neighborhood.AlanF_US
- Recently, a few houses in our neighborhood have been broken into.CK
- With his money, he can buy the whole neighborhood.Amastan
- In fear of his life, he abandoned his business in that neighborhood.Amastan
- Fireball, an orange tabby cat, loves to terrorize all the cats in the neighborhood.Eccles17
- In this neighborhood, you're just a babe in the woods.2001
- Even though she lives in my neighborhood, we only occasionally see each other.DiffEquation
- Normally, all the kids in the neighborhood went to school by bus.Amastan
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Forms of neighborhood
as a noun
- plural
- neighborhoods