Neighborhood
['neɪbə,hʊd] or ['nebɚ,hʊd]
Definition
(noun.) people living near one another; 'it is a friendly neighborhood'; 'my neighborhood voted for Bush'.
(noun.) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); 'an ethnic neighborhood'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
(n.) A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
(n.) The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
(n.) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Vicinity, vicinage, environs.
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Examples
- Sherman may be looked for in the neighborhood of Goldsboro' any time from the 22d to the 28th of February; this limits your time very materially. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- In many regions, especially in the neighborhood of streams, water can be found ten or fifteen feet below the surface. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- Tuesday--Somewhere in the neighborhood of the island of Malta. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Even in the neighborhood of the mines people soon grew used to seeing Puffing Billy, as the engine was called, traveling back and forth from the pit to the quay, and took it quite for granted. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Attempts to insulate the line wire were limited to coating it with tar or smearing it with wax for the benefit of all the bees in the neighborhood. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Some of the giant redwood logs must be split in the woods with powder before they can be handled on the saw carriage, and the average yield per acre is in the neighborhood of 150,000 feet. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Yes, yes; but they want the thing hushed up, and I understand that the young fellow is going out of the neighborhood. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- As soon as the troops reach Hanover Town they should get possession of all the crossings they can in that neighborhood. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Darkness had set in; it was a low neighborhood; no help was near; resistance was useless. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- There he at once became interested in teaching his father’s system of Visible Speech to a tribe of Mohawk Indians in the neighborhood. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- He lit the two candles which stood upon the mantelpiece, and then he proceeded to turn back the corner of the carpet in the neighborhood of the door. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- At eighteen he began this study, and had soon won a good reputation in the neighborhood as an engineer. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Our orders required us to go into camp in the same neighborhood, and await further instructions. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- She was many miles past any neighborhood where she was personally known. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- Uncle Tom was a sort of patriarch in religious matters, in the neighborhood. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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