neighborhood

[ ney-ber-hood ]

noun

1. 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.

2. a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants:

   a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood.

   Synonyms: vicinity, locale, area, community

3. a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality:

   The whole neighborhood was there.

4. neighborly feeling or conduct.
5. nearness; proximity:

   to sense the neighborhood of trouble.

6. Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point.

Word History and Origins

Origin of neighborhood¹

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

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

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

   She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.

Example Sentences

For example, if shopping at your neighborhood grocery store or bookstore is more expensive, consider making one out of every five purchases there.

From Salon

But early in the fire’s progression on Wednesday, Nov. 6, the blaze jumped the highway and began threatening a suburban neighborhood in the Camarillo Hills.

From Los Angeles Times

“For a year and a half, he showed up in every neighborhood, every day. He listened and talked to everybody he ran into,” said Dan Newman, a strategist who ran the independent expenditure committee supporting Lurie.

From Los Angeles Times

“We need affordable housing everywhere — in every neighborhood,” said Maria Patiño Gutierrez, a policy director with the nonprofit Strategic Actions for a Just Economy.

From Los Angeles Times

The demographic change made it difficult for older people to live in Senboku-NT as neighborhood shops closed one after another, leaving frail older adults unable to maintain their daily life within walking distance.

From Science Daily

Related Words

• area
• block
• district
• parish
• part
• precinct
• region
• section
• street
• suburb
• territory
• zone