neighbourhood

3 definitions found

neighbourhood - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

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

neighbourhood - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  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,
           neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
      2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly
         neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn:
         neighborhood, neighbourhood]

neighbourhood - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  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