neighbourhood

/ ˈneɪbəˌhʊd /

noun

1. the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity vicinal
2. a district where people live
3. the people in a particular area; neighbours
4. neighbourly feeling
5. maths the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than a specified value
6. modifier of or for a neighbourhood

   a neighbourhood community worker

7. in the neighbourhood of
   approximately (a given number)

Example Sentences

The whole neighbourhood in La Curra, stunned and shattered by the violence of the flooding, immediately began to search for the missing Izan and Rubén.

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He said he himself had lovingly constructed the house in La Curra, a neighbourhood of Mas del Jutge, in a colonial style over three years.

From BBC

For herd immunity to work, at least 90% of all children in every community and neighbourhood need to be given a minimum of two doses.

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In the video, he said he had been staying in the affluent Sandton neighbourhood in Johannesburg.

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He and his brother were "street rats" and, when he strayed into the wrong neighbourhood at the age of seven, a rival gang member "nailed my hand to a fence".

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