Neighbourhood

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\,
  neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\
     Same as {neighbor}, {neighboring}, {neighborhood},
     {neighborly}. [Chiefly Brit.]
     [PJC]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  neighbourhood
       n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "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" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality},
             {neighborhood}, {neck of the woods}]
       2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly
          neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: {neighborhood}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  21 Moby Thesaurus words for "neighbourhood":
     about, almost, approximately, area, around, close to, confines,
     district, environs, locale, locality, more or less, nearly,
     practically, precincts, purlieus, quarter, region, surroundings,
     vicinage, vicinity