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