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Meaning of neighborhood in English

(Definition of neighborhood from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
(Definition of neighborhood from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of neighborhood

neighborhood
Search and rescue teams were working their way through the neighborhoods.
The series is looking at how cities, neighborhoods and even people are changing.
From NPR
They tell a story about the neighborhood and the people who live and work there.
From NPR
This integrative approach has turned a troubled neighborhood into a welcoming place to live.
They feel a strong sense of pride in the neighborhood.
But the neighborhood could also benefit from projects such as youth and senior centers, he said.
Members create a profile, share photos and other details about themselves, and they can post comments and updates to the neighborhood newsfeed.
My goal is not to make a neighborhood that prices people out.
The government also advanced plans this week to build more than 1,000 new homes in two other neighborhoods.
The friends had been sent to work in different districts in the city's most dangerous neighborhoods.
Between 2000 and 2010, he said, more than 2,000 people younger than age 25 moved into the neighborhood.
The company had spent more than $300 million developing the sites, which serve communities and neighborhoods across the country.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
 
 

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