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microneighborhood

microneighborhood noun: a very small urban neighborhood, usually extending the length of a city block or smaller.

Noun

microneighborhood (plural microneighborhoods)

  1. (US) A very small urban neighborhood, usually extending the length of a city block or smaller.
    • Occasionally the resultant microneighborhood was a single block; more often it was part of one block plus the face of the block across the street. Or it might be both sides of a street for several blocks.1982, Claude S. Fischer, To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 276

Forms of microneighborhood

pluralmicroneighborhoods
alternative UKmicroneighbourhood

Origin of microneighborhood

From micro- + neighborhood.

Questions about microneighborhood

What does microneighborhood mean?
Microneighborhood means a very small urban neighborhood, usually extending the length of a city block or smaller.
What part of speech is microneighborhood?
Microneighborhood is a noun.
What is the plural of microneighborhood?
The plural of microneighborhood is microneighborhoods.

Words near microneighborhood in the dictionary

  1. microneedle
  2. microneedle array
  3. microneedle arrays
  4. microneedles
  5. microneedling
  6. microneighborhood
  7. microneighborhoods
  8. microneighbourhood
  9. microneighbourhoods
  10. micronekton
  11. micronektonic

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