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"he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"nouna surrounding or nearby region
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"it is a friendly neighborhood" "my neighborhood voted for Bush"nounpeople living near one another
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"the price is in the neighborhood of $100"nounthe approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
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"an ethnic neighborhood"nounan area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
Definition that contains neighborhood
- from Out of the neighborhood of; lessening or losing proximity to; leaving behind; by reason of; out of; by aid of; -- used whenever departure, setting out, commencement of action, being, state, occurrence, etc., or procedure, emanation, absence, separation, etc., are to be expressed. It is construed with, and indicates, the point of space or time at which the action, state, etc., are regarded as setting out or beginning; also, less frequently, the source, the cause, the occasion, out of which anything proceeds; the anitithesis and correlative of to;
- local of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
- hood (slang) a neighborhood
- homeboy a male friend from your neighborhood or hometown
- charlestown a former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston; settled in 1629
- pachuco a Mexican-American teenager who belongs to a neighborhood gang and who dresses in showy clothes
- redline discriminate in selling or renting housing in certain areas of a neighborhood
- nob hill a fashionable neighborhood in San Francisco
- gold coast a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living; usually along a coastal area
- 'hood (slang) a neighborhood