neighborhood
/ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd/ noun B1- 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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Born in the neighborhood of Arles, she had shared in the beauty for which its women are proverbial; but that beauty had gradually withered beneath the devastating influence of the slow fever so prevalent among dwellers by the ponds of Aiguemortes and the marshes of Camargue.
“Yes; or in the neighborhood.”
“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.”
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