( BrE ) ( AmE neighborhood ) noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ friendly , nice
▪ safe
▪ quiet
▪ vibrant
▪ bad , dangerous , rough , tough
▪
I lived in a tough ~.
▪ crime-ridden
▪ affluent , respectable , upscale ( AmE ), wealthy
▪ depressed , disadvantaged , impoverished , low-income , poor , run-down
▪ downtown ( AmE ), inner-city , suburban , urban
▪ immediate , local , nearby , surrounding
▪
They often got together with other parents in the local ~.
▪ residential
▪ middle-class , working-class
▪ good , great
▪ ethnic , minority
▪ diverse
▪ gay
▪
a bar located in the middle of Chicago's gay ~
▪ Asian , black , Latino , white , etc.
▪ real ( esp. AmE )
▪
The place feels like a real ~.
▪ entire , whole
▪
Before long the whole ~ knew about it.
▪ segregated
▪ historic
VERB + NEIGHBOURHOOD/NEIGHBORHOOD
▪ build , create , establish
▪
Our health depends on creating ~s that are conducive to walking.
▪ move into
▪
A lot of new families have moved into the ~.
▪ improve , revitalize , transform
▪ destroy
▪
the criminals who are destroying our ~
▪ visit
▪
Tourists rarely visit that ~.
▪ explore
▪ canvass ( esp. AmE )
▪ patrol
▪
They hired a private police force to patrol the ~.
▪ roam , wander
▪
stray dogs who roam the ~
▪ populate
▪
a ~ populated mainly by Mexican Americans
NEIGHBOURHOOD/NEIGHBORHOOD + NOUN
▪ resident
▪ boy , children , kid ( informal )
▪ bully
▪ leader
▪ community
▪ association , council , group , organization
▪ watch (= an arrangement by which people watch each other's houses to prevent crime)
▪ police , policing
▪ cat , dog
▪ bar , pub ( BrE ), restaurant , school , shop ( esp. BrE ), store ( AmE ), etc.
▪ centre/center
▪ park
▪ street
▪ party ( esp. AmE )
▪
She volunteered to make a potato salad for the ~ party.
PREPOSITION
▪ around the ~ , round the ~ ( esp. BrE )
▪
There were various parks around the ~.
▪
We used to ride bikes around the ~.
▪ in a/the ~
▪
There was a large school in the ~.
▪ outside a/the ~
▪
It was a car from outside the immediate ~.
Neighbourhood/neighborhood is used before these nouns: ↑ restaurant , ↑ shopping centre , ↑ supermarket , ↑ warden
Neighbourhood/neighborhood is used after these nouns: ↑ immigrant , ↑ minority , ↑ slum