NEIGHBOURHOOD


Meaning of NEIGHBOURHOOD in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ neɪbə(r)hʊd ]

( neighbourhoods)

Note: in AM, use 'neighborhood'

1.

A neighbourhood is one of the parts of a town where people live.

It seemed like a good neighbourhood to raise my children.

= area

N-COUNT

2.

The neighbourhood of a place or person is the area or the people around them.

He was born and grew up in the Flatbush neighbourhood of Brooklyn...

N-COUNT

3.

In the neighbourhood of a number means approximately that number.

He’s won in the neighbourhood of four million dollars...

= roughly, about

PREP-PHRASE : PREP amount

4.

A place in the neighbourhood of another place is near it.

...the loss of woodlands in the neighbourhood of large towns.

PHRASE : PHR n

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