Definitions for neighborhood

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neighborhood neigh·bor·hood

Spelling: [ney-ber-hoo d]

IPA: /ˈneɪ bərˌhʊd/

Neighborhood is a 12 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 22 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 23 points.

You can make 545 anagrams from letters in neighborhood (bdeghhinooor).

Definitions for neighborhood

noun

1. the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity:
2. a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants:
3. a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality:
4. neighborly feeling or conduct.
5. nearness; proximity:
6. Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.

Idioms

1. in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about:

Origin of neighborhood

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

Examples for neighborhood

A car mechanic who goes by the name “Big Perm” said he noticed a change in the neighborhood.

Like everything else in that neighborhood, it was covered with picture writing.

Somebody had hung an American flag and people of the neighborhood had placed bouquets and candles.

Lynchburg is a six-month-old German sausage and ale house in the heart of Panama's San Francisco neighborhood.

What if it should be in this neighborhood, among these surroundings?

That was standard operating procedure in the neighborhood at the time.

Then I hope you will be careful what houses you go into, for I hear the small-pox is in the neighborhood.

But Joe's affair with Sidney had been the talk of the neighborhood.

I worried along, however, to get out of that neighborhood as soon as possible.

Does all this mean that a robo-Jurassic Park is coming soon to a neighborhood near you?