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- [ney-ber-hoo d]
- /ˈneɪ bərˌhʊd/
- /ˈneɪ.bə.hʊd/
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- US Pronunciation
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- [ney-ber-hoo d]
- /ˈneɪ bərˌhʊd/
Definitions of neighborhood word
- noun neighborhood 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. 1
- noun neighborhood a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants: a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood. 1
- noun neighborhood a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality: The whole neighborhood was there. 1
- noun neighborhood neighborly feeling or conduct. 1
- noun neighborhood nearness; proximity: to sense the neighborhood of trouble. 1
- noun neighborhood Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point. 1
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Origin of neighborhood
First appearance:
before 1400 One of the 24% oldest English words
First recorded in 1400-50, neighborhood is from the late Middle English word neighborehode. See neighbor, -hood
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Parts of speech for Neighborhood
noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
neighborhood popularity
A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 91% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".
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This diagram is provided by Google Ngram ViewerSynonyms for neighborhood
noun neighborhood
- area — An area is a particular part of a town, a country, a region, or the world.
- district — a division of territory, as of a country, state, or county, marked off for administrative, electoral, or other purposes.
- region — an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body: a region of the earth.
- locality — a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
- zone — any continuous area that differs in some respect, or is distinguished for some purpose, from adjoining areas, or within which certain distinctive circumstances exist or are established: The decisions were formulated in a zone of uncertainty. The temperature lies outside the danger zone.
adjective neighborhood
- local — low-cal.
- small-town — of, relating to, or characteristic of a town or village: a typical, small-town general store.
- divisional — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
- communistic — of, characteristic of, or relating to communism
- localized — to make local; fix in, or assign or restrict to, a particular place, locality, etc.
Antonyms for neighborhood
noun neighborhood
- whole — comprising the full quantity, amount, extent, number, etc., without diminution or exception; entire, full, or total: He ate the whole pie. They ran the whole distance.
- distance — the extent or amount of space between two things, points, lines, etc.
- remoteness — far apart; far distant in space; situated at some distance away: the remote jungles of Brazil.
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