neighborhood

noun neigh·bor·hood \ ˈnā-bər-ˌhu̇d \

|Updated on: 24 Jun 2018

Examples: neighborhood in a Sentence

Definition 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. Paxson

3 a : a place or region near : vicinity

traveled to a place somewhere in the neighborhood of that city

b : an approximate amount, extent, or degree

cost in the neighborhood of $100

4 a : the people living near one another

The whole neighborhood heard about it.

b : a section lived in by neighbors and usually having distinguishing characteristics

lived in a quiet neighborhood

5 : the set (see ²set 21) of all points belonging to a given set whose distances from a given point are less than a given positive (see ¹positive 4e) number; broadly : a set that contains a neighborhood

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Examples of neighborhood in a Sentence

They bought a house in a beautiful neighborhood.
The whole neighborhood heard about it.

Recent Examples of neighborhood from the Web

From top cocktail bars like Aviary and The Whistler to neighborhood haunts like Inner Town Pub and Map Room, to cozy wine boites like Webster's Wine Bar, there's a watering hole for all manner of palates.

— nick kindelsperger, chicagotribune.com, "Long live the wedge salad, America's silliest salad," 21 June 2018
Less than two weeks after a pizza delivery driver was lured to a southwest Atlanta neighborhood and robbed at gunpoint, another was attacked on the same street Wednesday night.

— chelsea prince, ajc, "Pregnant pizza delivery driver attacked days after robbery on the same street," 21 June 2018
Most of their clients have been very gracious in welcoming us to the neighborhood.

— gail goldberg, SFChronicle.com, "Intentionally Blank steps it up with new Mission store," 21 June 2018
Jurassic World could be coming to a neighborhood near you, so says science.

— becca smouse, azcentral, "'Jurassic World' paleontologist: We're 5 years away from genetically engineering dinosaurs," 20 June 2018
Prosecutors had argued that a 6 ½-year sentence was appropriate because of the risk the lab posed to the neighborhood.

— alene tchekmedyian, latimes.com, "A drug lab in Lake Elsinore exploded in November. The ex-cop behind it was just sentenced 5 years in prison," 19 June 2018
One of the qualities that may have attracted your grandmother and others to this neighborhood just southeast of downtown was exactly what would do it in half a century later.

— paula allen, San Antonio Express-News, "Small world southeast of downtown San Antonio fell to progress," 16 June 2018
In the other, a relative newcomer to the gentrifying neighborhood, the Dyckmans might have felt right at home.

— sam roberts, New York Times, "Untrodden Broadway: The Hidden Gems of a World-Famous Street," 14 June 2018
Authorities were called to the North Side neighborhood around 8:30 p.m. and found 55 people inside the truck who are suspected of entering the country illegally.

— travis fedschun, Fox News, "55 illegal immigrants found in truck in Texas near San Antonio airport," 13 June 2018

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