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neighborhood
noun
people living near one another
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Pronunciation
ˈneɪbə.hʊd
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noun
people living near one another
“it is a friendly neighborhood”
noun
a surrounding or nearby region
“the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville”
noun
an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
“an ethnic neighborhood”
noun
the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in ‘in the region of’)
“it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job”
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Example Sentences
it is a friendly neighborhood
my neighborhood voted for Bush
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
an ethnic neighborhood
it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
the price is in the neighborhood of $100
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