Neighborhood Meaning
/ˈneɪbə.hʊd/Definition, CEFR level A2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe residential area near one's home.
nounThe inhabitants of a residential area.
Sentence Examples
The whole neighborhood was surprised at the news.
The whole neighborhood mourned his death.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The whole ____ came together to clean the local park on Saturday morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We just moved into a quiet ____ that has many beautiful parks and trees.
Word Origin & History
From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English neȝeburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor + -red; the term being interpreted as neighbor + -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood. Cognates Cognate with Scots nichbourheid (“neighbourhood”). Compare also Dutch naburigheid (“neighbourhood”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"I know the shadiest breeziest spots, hidden tables surrounded by trees that have lived longer than the neighborhoods around them. […] I simply remembered a great little park in a neighborhood where I used to teach at the elementary school up the road."
— 2020 September 5, Jane Greenway Carr, “How we spent our summer not-vacations”, in CNN:
"Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up
Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms
Of France and England, whose very shores look pale
With envy of each other’s happiness,
May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction
Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord
In their sweet bosoms […]"
— 1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Life of Henry the Fift”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene ii]:
"Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood, the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God."
— 1667, John Milton, “Book I”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, →OCLC:
"Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood."
— 1835, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes:
"At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood."
— 1853, Charles Boner, Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria, page 286:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The whole ____ came together to clean the local park on Saturday morning.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We just moved into a quiet ____ that has many beautiful parks and trees.