neighbourhoodPronunciation: /ˈneɪbəhʊd/ (US neighborhood)Translate neighbourhood | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish Definition of neighbourhood noun 1a district or community within a town or city:she lived in a wealthy neighbourhood of Boston the area surrounding a particular place, person, or object:he was reluctant to leave the neighbourhood of London [mass noun] neighbourly feeling or conduct:the importance of neighbourhood to old people 2 Mathematics the set of points whose distance from a given point is less than (or less than or equal to) some value. Phrases in the neighbourhood of approximately; about:the cost would be in the neighbourhood of three billion dollarsneighbourhood in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of neighbourhood in the US English dictionary