neighborhood

1
as in vicinity
an approximate amount, extent, or degree a movie that's said to have cost in the neighborhood of 100 million dollars

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2
as in district
an area (as of a city) set apart for some purpose or having some special feature are you familiar with the city's Latino neighborhood?

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3
as in town
the people living in a particular area invited practically the whole neighborhood over for a big party

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4
as in backyard
an adjoining region or space we were somewhere in the neighborhood of the Capitol because we could see the dome

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Recent Examples of neighborhood Residents of this new neighborhood would enjoy access to abundant public transit, a variety of retail storefronts and acres of parkland. Nick Woltman, Twin Cities, 26 Apr. 2025 Sanaa was attacked in really high-density residential neighborhoods, which hadn't happened that way in a long time, actually. Neda Ulaby, NPR, 26 Apr. 2025 Our success has driven traffic to the neighborhood and increased the business of the local restaurants and stores. Shivani Vora, New York Times, 26 Apr. 2025 Officers picked up a child answering to Dylan in the Lykins neighborhood of east Kansas City around 6 p.m., near the intersection of Independence and Drury avenues, according to a KCPD spokesperson. Ilana Arougheti, Kansas City Star, 15 Apr. 2025 See All Example Sentences for neighborhood
Recent Examples of Synonyms for neighborhood
Noun
  • Ship-tracking data analyzed by the Associated Press put one of the vessels believed to be carrying the chemical in the vicinity in March, as Ambrey said.
    Jon Gambrell, Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
  • But then the team started finding more of these caterpillars, all covered in the body parts of other insects and shed spider skins, and all in the vicinity of spider webs.
    ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Park district lands grant for garden lot permeable pavers Naperville Park District will use a $785,308 grant to install a permeable paver parking lot at the Ron Ory Community Garden Plots.
    Michelle Mullins, Chicago Tribune, 24 Apr. 2025
  • The Massapequa school district sued the state, but a federal judge ruled against the district.
    Jackson Thompson, FOXNews.com, 24 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • That number is quickly dwindling due to depopulation—some towns have not experienced a birth in more than a decade.
    Asia London Palomba, Travel + Leisure, 20 Apr. 2025
  • With brick sidewalks and boutiques housed in historic buildings, this town provides a true glimpse into the past.
    Jennifer Prince, Southern Living, 20 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Police soon began receiving 911 calls from neighbors who spotted the suspects trying to hide in backyards.
    Libor Jany, Los Angeles Times, 26 Apr. 2025
  • The backyard is spotlighted by a 70-foot infnity pool with an inset spa.
    Wendy Bowman, Robb Report, 25 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • The tune quickly became a global sensation, hitting No. 1 on the Hot 100 and staying there for 10 consecutive weeks.
    Hugh McIntyre, Forbes.com, 19 Apr. 2025
  • As disco tunes increasingly invaded Billboard’s Hot 100 list, rock performers such as Cher, Rod Stewart and the Rolling Stones joined the sound.
    Alice George, Smithsonian Magazine, 18 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • An Ohio community remembers Fiona, a Great Pyrenees-golden retriever mix therapy dog, who completed a goal of over 1,000 therapeutic visits.
    Rebecca Morin, USA Today, 22 Apr. 2025
  • The film, directed by Mo Sha, follows a seven-year-old girl who grows up in a deaf community with her father and whose life is disrupted when her estranged mother returns and reintroduces her to the world of hearing.
    Naman Ramachandran, Variety, 21 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • Police in both Little Rock and North Little Rock will have wider access to flying drones after both cities were awarded state grants this year, although the departments' plans... Subscribe to continue reading, or log in.
    Grant Lancaster, Arkansas Online, 27 Apr. 2025
  • Keep your Hall of Fame career in a strange city and give me the Crawford experience, please.
    Grant Brisbee, New York Times, 27 Apr. 2025
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  • Four people were killed after a vehicle crashed into an after-school camp in a small Illinois village on Monday, according to local officials.
    Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 29 Apr. 2025
  • For months, the drama happening elsewhere in the country had imposed itself on set: First the rapid-fire disintegration of the ruling regime in December; then, in March, a spate of sectarian massacres in villages just a few dozen miles away from Kasheesh.
    Nabih Bulos, Los Angeles Times, 28 Apr. 2025

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“Neighborhood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/neighborhood. Accessed 2 May. 2025.

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