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neighborhood

[ ney-ber-hood ]

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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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Word 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

Idioms

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

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Example Sentences

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Police allege that he killed at least a dozen neighborhood cats, and that carcasses were found at his home.

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“I don’t really see it as an accolade, but I do see it as a necessity for people to know that car culture runs through every neighborhood,” he says.

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In the immediate aftermath of January’s Palisades fires, which wiped out more than 6,800 structures and much of the neighborhood’s iconic high school, there was doubt about whether the baseball program would even survive.

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“If you go out in certain neighborhoods, everyone’s going to look the same. But there’s no such uniform at Simon Says,” she says.

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Although much of the affluent Westside skews liberal, Beverly Hills is home to neighborhoods that repeatedly voted for Trump.

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