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
3a : a place or region near : vicinity traveled to a place somewhere in the neighborhood of that cityb : an approximate amount, extent, or degree cost in the neighborhood of $100
4a : 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
From the M-W Editors
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
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A male victim was pronounced dead Thursday afternoon after a fire on the Far South Side in the Mount Greenwood neighborhood, police and fire officials said.
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The explosion happened near the German embassy about 8:25 a.m. in the Wazir Akbar Khan area, a busy neighborhood that’s home to the presidential palace and many diplomatic missions, some of which were damaged in the attack.
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Riders will depart from the Ali Center and go to local Ali landmarks, including his childhood home in the Parkland neighborhood and the Columbia Gym.
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Authorities say a burglary suspect has been shot and killed as police tried to arrest him in a North Carolina neighborhood.
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Justin Bieber got a hoist from Patrick Schwarzenegger — Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver’s 23-year-old son — on Saturday in New York City’s SoHo neighborhood.
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This is a critical question when studying the history of our little neighborhood in space.
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In the neighborhood, street parking has become scarce, with parking spots taken by equipment for the many construction sites.
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As neighborhood butcher shops have gone the way of the compact disc, the mass production of protein has devolved into something creepily assembly-lined and abstract.
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First Known Use of neighborhood
15th century
NEIGHBORHOOD Defined for English Language Learners
neighborhood
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: a section of a town or city
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: the people who live near each other
NEIGHBORHOOD Defined for Kids
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1 : a residential section of a city They are building a house in our neighborhood.
2 : the people living near one another
3 : a place or region near : vicinity
4 : an amount, size, or range that is close to It cost in the neighborhood of ten dollars.
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