neighborhood

1
as in vicinity
an approximate amount, extent, or degree a movie that's said to have cost in the neighborhood of 100 million dollars

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Relevance
2
as in district
an area (as of a city) set apart for some purpose or having some special feature are you familiar with the city's Latino neighborhood?

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3
as in town
the people living in a particular area invited practically the whole neighborhood over for a big party

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4
as in backyard
an adjoining region or space we were somewhere in the neighborhood of the Capitol because we could see the dome

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Recent Examples of neighborhood The duo had last been seen alive in an apartment in the Pico- Robertson neighborhood earlier on November 13, 2021. Dominic Patten, Deadline, 29 Oct. 2025 With neighborhoods steadily growing and more people using city services, Shawnee City Council candidates will have to find a balance between preparing for the future and caring for aging infrastructure. Taylor O'Connor, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2025 The Holiday Lights Express takes passengers through neighborhoods glowing with festive decorations, while the Santa Claus Express features an onboard visit from Santa himself, complete with treats for children. Kristine Hansen, Travel + Leisure, 29 Oct. 2025 The city's most deadly police raid before Tuesday was a 2021 raid that left 28 people dead in the Jacarezinho neighborhood. Janaina Quinet, USA Today, 29 Oct. 2025 See All Example Sentences for neighborhood
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neighborhood
Noun
  • The fish are likely protecting against ribbon worms, or Parborlasia corrugata, a type of nemertean, observed living in the vicinity.
    Ashley Strickland, CNN Money, 29 Oct. 2025
  • There are enough challenges with assaults, shots fired and drug dealing in the vicinity, especially along the nearby bike path, Byrne said.
    John Aguilar, Denver Post, 29 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The new congressional maps proposed by the state’s Democrats, which Proposition 50 will implement, are intended to net the party five additional seats in the House—but their actual impact will still depend on races in those districts.
    Solcyré Burga, Time, 5 Nov. 2025
  • The district board is set to adopt its 2025-26 grant award list at its regular meeting Tuesday.
    Paul Sisson, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • Some time next year, the taxi taking you around town may not have a human behind the wheel.
    Rob Nikolewski, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Nov. 2025
  • This gave Gates, from the use of his private jet alone, the same carbon footprint as a small town in Burundi.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 5 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • While compact enough to live on a backyard table, the Arc XL also looks beautiful sitting on its custom stand, which keeps everything at the right height for a seamless pizza-making experience.
    Editors of Bon Appétit, Bon Appetit Magazine, 29 Oct. 2025
  • The video, which was taken in the family’s backyard in their Montecito, California home, was too fast to really make out their features.
    Lizzie Lanuza, StyleCaster, 29 Oct. 2025
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  • Channeling the Queen of Pop, Clarkson, 43, mimics the character’s seductive delivery before letting her signature belt soar on the tune’s top notes.
    Dave Quinn, PEOPLE, 31 Oct. 2025
  • And, while the deal has yet to be inked, Beijing may have made some true concessions on the fate of the social media app TikTok, after changing its tune on staunch opposition to a US law requiring the app’s Chinese owner ByteDance to sell its US business.
    Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 31 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Audiences had come to embrace B-movie glory, unusual stories, and the idea of cult midnight screenings built around the idea of outsider community.
    JSTOR Daily, JSTOR Daily, 30 Oct. 2025
  • Coastal communities were hit hardest by the storm’s devastating winds, with some remote fishing villages nearly flattened by the hurricane.
    Avery Schmitz, CNN Money, 30 Oct. 2025
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  • The leaders of the world's biggest economies met at the airport in Busan, an hour's drive away from the APEC host city of Gyeongju, for just an hour and 40 minutes.
    Se Eun Gong, NPR, 2 Nov. 2025
  • In the waning days of the pandemic, appreciation and recognition came from Los Angeles city and county officials, who, according to posts on Farzam’s Instagram, commended Farzam for operating Covid testing centers and hailed him as a leader and role model.
    Ray Sanchez, CNN Money, 2 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In early 20th-century Hungary, a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The behavior observed in the village is a fair representation of the design choices made by the models’ creators.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 4 Nov. 2025

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“Neighborhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neighborhood. Accessed 5 Nov. 2025.

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