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neighbourhood
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neighbourhood
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun neighbourhood has 2 senses
- neighbourhood(n = noun.location) locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, vicinity - a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" has particulars: gold coast, 'hood, place, proximity, scenery, latin quarter, left bank, montmartre, right bank, charlestown
- neighbourhood(n = noun.group) neighborhood - people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" is a kind of community
is a kind of section
Derived forms noun neighbour2, noun neighbour1
has particulars: hood, street
Derived form noun neighbour1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
neighbourhood, n. (US neighborhood)
1 a a district, esp. one forming a community within a town or city. b the people of a district; one's neighbours.
2 neighbourly feeling or conduct.
1 a a district, esp. one forming a community within a town or city. b the people of a district; one's neighbours.
2 neighbourly feeling or conduct.
Idiom
in the neighbourhood of roughly; about (paid in the neighbourhood of {pound}100). neighbourhood watch systematic local vigilance by householders to discourage crime, esp. against property.
THESAURUS
neighbourhood
about, almost, approximately, area, around, close to, confines, district, environs, locale, locality, more or less, nearly, practically, precincts, purlieus, quarter, region, surroundings, vicinage, vicinity
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