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neighbourhood

Pronunciation: /ˈneɪbəhʊd/
(US neighborhood)
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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 dollars

neighbourhood in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of neighbourhood in the US English dictionary
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