NEIGHBORHOOD Definition & Meaning

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neighborhood

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noun

the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity:
the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.
a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants:
a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood.
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a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality:
The whole neighborhood was there.
neighborly feeling or conduct.
nearness; proximity:
to sense the neighborhood of trouble.
Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of neighborhood¹

First recorded in 1400–50, neighborhood is from the late Middle English word neighborehode. See neighbor, -hood

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Idioms and Phrases

in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about:
She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.

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Example Sentences

The neighborhood has come a long way, she said, and “to see the rest of the shops open up, that’ll be nice.”

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Plumeria cuttings from his grandmother’s house in the neighborhood were also added to the plot.

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The Atlanta Braves, for instance, generated $67 million in revenue last year from the Battery, a neighborhood next to the ballpark where fans eat, shop, play, work and live.

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I wanted a cake that felt like eating fruit in the sun, like something you’d be served on the ivy-covered patio of a neighborhood trattoria, the air thick with early summer heat.

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Fishburne was an executive producer and co-star of this ABC sitcom about a Black family living in an upper-class, predominantly white neighborhood.

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