neighborhood
/ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/ sustantivo B1En español: vecindad, barrio, vecindario, cercanía
- The residential area near one's home. · He lives in my neighborhood.
- The inhabitants of a residential area. · The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
- A formal or informal division of a municipality or region. · We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
- An approximate amount. · He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
- The quality of physical proximity. · The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
- Close proximity; nearness.
- A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
- Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
Plural neighborhoods
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“That tall, harsh-looking man is very learned, he discovered, in the neighborhood of Rome, a kind of lizard with a vertebra more than lizards usually have, and he immediately laid his discovery before the Institute.
The table is good, and the house is near the Academy, in a quiet neighborhood.”
Consequently, the procureur is very active in the affair, and the prefect of police very much interested; and, thanks to that interest, for which I am very grateful, they send me all the robbers of Paris and the neighborhood, under pretence of their being Caderousse’s murderers, so that in three months, if this continues, every robber and assassin in France will have the plan of my house at his fingers’ ends.
This strange event aroused great wonder and curiosity in the neighborhood of the Allées de Meilhan, and a multitude of theories were afloat, none of which was anywhere near the truth.
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