Word

neighborhood, n.
(neighborhoods)
freq. cnt. 42

a surrounding or nearby region
<noun.location> freq. cnt.: 39 freq. cnt.: 28 freq. cnt.: 6 freq. cnt.: 4 freq. cnt.: 1

locality neck of the woods neighborhood neighbourhood vicinity

sample sentences

"the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"
"it is a rugged locality"
"he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
"I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

neighbor neighbor

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

neighbour neighbour

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym

gold coast 'hood place proximity scenery

instance hyponym

Left Bank, Latin Quarter Montmartre Right Bank Charlestown

people living near one another
<noun.group> freq. cnt.: 14 freq. cnt.: 14

neighborhood neighbourhood

sample sentences

"it is a friendly neighborhood"
"my neighborhood voted for Bush"

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

lexical pointers

derivationally related form

semantic pointers

hypernym

hyponym

an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
<noun.location>

neighborhood

sample sentences

"an ethnic neighborhood"

semantic pointers

hypernym

the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
<noun.quantity>

neighborhood region

sample sentences

"it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"
"the price is in the neighborhood of $100"

semantic pointers

hypernym

indefinite quantity