neighborhood
The residential area near one's home.
Example
“He lives in my neighborhood.”
Other meanings
The inhabitants of a residential area.
“The fire alarmed the neighborhood.”
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
“We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.”
Synonyms
- vicinity
- proximity
- quarter
- neck of the woods
Related words
- neighborhoodful
- neighborhooding
- niggerhood
- neighborhood electric vehicle
- there goes the neighborhood
- agrihood
- gay neighborhood
- clear the neighborhood
- compact neighborhood
- gayborhood
- hood
- in close neighborhood
Example sentences
Word history
From Middle English "neȝeburredde".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “neighborhood” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.