neighbourhood

/ (ˈneɪbəˌhʊd) /

the immediate environment; surroundings; vicinity Related adjective: vicinal

a district where people live

the people in a particular area; neighbours

neighbourly feeling

maths the set of all points whose distance from a given point is less than a specified value

(modifier) of or for a neighbourhood a neighbourhood community worker

in the neighbourhood of approximately (a given number)

Words nearby neighbourhood

We lived in a comfortable house in a riverside Jewish neighbourhood in Baghdad.

Throw Away That Rusty Key |Lyn Julius |May 20, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
He and three other men from the neighbourhood waved cars through.

Continued Unrest in Egypt |Ursula Lindsey |January 30, 2011 |DAILY BEAST
I won't trespass, he may be very sure of that, and I won't stay in the neighbourhood any longer than I can help.

Mitchelhurst Place, Vol. I (of 2) |Margaret Veley
The soil in the neighbourhood is deep enough for the cultivation of corn.

Celebrated Travels and Travellers |Jules Verne

The enemy immediately withdrew, and never appeared again in 1917 in this neighbourhood.

The Crisis of the Naval War |John Rushworth Jellicoe
We have a shrewd idea that he may be hanging in the neighbourhood again very shortly.

Punch or the London Charivari, Vol. 148, February 10, 1915 |Various
Upton, the refiner, has a smoky chimney, that sets him and all the neighbourhood by the ears.

Friends and Neighbors |Anonymous