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NEIGHBORHOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People living near one another
Example:
my neighborhood voted for Bush
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("neighborhood" is a kind of...):
community (a group of people living in a particular local area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neighborhood"):
hood ((slang) a neighborhood)
street (people living or working on the same street)
Derivation:
neighbor (a person who lives (or is located) near another)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A surrounding or nearby region
Example:
I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
Synonyms:
locality; neck of the woods; neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("neighborhood" is a kind of...):
section (a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neighborhood"):
gold coast (a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living; usually along a coastal area)
'hood ((slang) a neighborhood)
place (a general vicinity)
proximity (the region close around a person or thing)
scenery (the appearance of a place)
Instance hyponyms:
Latin Quarter; Left Bank (the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life)
Montmartre (the highest point in Paris; famous for its associations with many artists)
Right Bank (the region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine)
Charlestown (a former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston; settled in 1629)
Derivation:
neighbor (a nearby object of the same kind)
neighbor (a person who lives (or is located) near another)
Sense 3
Meaning:
An area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
Example:
an ethnic neighborhood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("neighborhood" is a kind of...):
area; country (a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography))
Sense 4
Meaning:
The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in 'in the region of')
Example:
the price is in the neighborhood of $100
Synonyms:
neighborhood; region
Classified under:
Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure
Hypernyms ("neighborhood" is a kind of...):
indefinite quantity (an estimated quantity)
Context examples:
This is because the extracellular environment is a complex matrix in which local signals establish different neighborhoods that encourage distinct cell growth and/or development and function.
(Bioengineers create functional 3D brain-like tissue, NIH)
Optical and radio astronomers looked carefully for interstellar gas in our part of the galaxy, but couldn't find much in Earth's neighborhood.
(Evidence for supernovas near Earth, NASA)
Near-Earth Objects (NEOs) are comets and asteroids that have been nudged by the gravitational attraction of the giant planets in our solar system into orbits that allow them to enter Earth's neighborhood.
(Asteroid-Hunting Spacecraft Delivers a Second Year of Data, NASA)
The incident made it think, apparently, that the neighborhood was dangerous, for it slowly lurched off through the wood, followed by its mate and its three enormous infants.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This structure may provide the solution to a long-standing mystery about the amount of antimatter in our neighborhood.
(NASA’s Fermi Mission Links Nearby Pulsar’s Gamma-ray ‘Halo’ to Antimatter Puzzle, NASA)
Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC - Traveling out of the neighborhood, driving, or arranging to take public transportation.
(FAQ-NACC Version - Travel, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
Functional Activities Questionnaire-NACC Version (FAQ-NACC Version) Traveling out of neighborhood, driving, arranging to take buses.
(FAQ-NACC Version - Travel, NCI Thesaurus)
A neighborhood or locale that provides access to healthy foods and healthy eating alternatives.
(Healthy Food Environment, NCI Thesaurus)
A location known by a local name (e.g., neighborhood, place, or district).
(Locality, NCI Thesaurus)
Functional Activities Questionnaire (FAQ) Traveling out of neighborhood, driving, arranging to take buses.
(FAQ - Travel, NCI Thesaurus)
