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NEIGHBOURHOOD
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
People living near one another
Example:
my neighborhood voted for Bush
Synonyms:
neighborhood; neighbourhood
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("neighbourhood" is a kind of...):
community (a group of people living in a particular local area)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "neighbourhood"):
hood ((slang) a neighborhood)
street (people living or working on the same street)
Derivation:
neighbour (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 ("neighbourhood" 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 "neighbourhood"):
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:
neighbour (a nearby object of the same kind)
neighbour (a person who lives (or is located) near another)
Context examples:
It seems to me that we ought to take cabs when we go south or east; and even leave them somewhere near the neighbourhood we are going to.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Mrs. Chillip, coming into a little property in that neighbourhood, under her father's will, I bought a practice down there, in which you will be glad to hear I am doing well.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
A great many changes have happened in the neighbourhood, since you went away.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
There was not one lord in the neighbourhood; no—not even a baronet.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
He lit the two candles which stood upon the mantelpiece, and then he proceeded to turn back the corner of the carpet in the neighbourhood of the door.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I saw vessels near the shore and found myself suddenly transported back to the neighbourhood of civilised man.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
My master added, that he was daily pressed by the Houyhnhnms of the neighbourhood to have the assembly’s exhortation executed, which he could not put off much longer.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
When Hansel and Gretel came into her neighbourhood, she laughed with malice, and said mockingly: “I have them, they shall not escape me again!”
(Fairy Tales, by The Brothers Grimm)
Based on results from more than 2000 primary-age schoolchildren from across London, the researchers found that walking or cycling to school is a strong predictor of obesity levels, a result which was consistent across neighbourhoods, ethnicities and socioeconomic backgrounds.
(Children who walk to school less likely to be overweight or obese, study suggests, University of Cambridge)
As an object in the main asteroid belt, Hygiea satisfies right away three of the four requirements to be classified as a dwarf planet: it orbits around the Sun, it is not a moon and, unlike a planet, it has not cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
(ESO Telescope Reveals What Could be the Smallest Dwarf Planet Yet in the Solar System, ESO)
