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neighborhoods

neighborhoods is the plural of neighborhood.

Meaning of neighborhood

Noun

neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods)

  1. (US) The residential area near one's home.
    • He lives in my neighborhood.
  2. (US, collective) The inhabitants of a residential area.
    • The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
  3. (US) A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
    • We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
  4. (US) An approximate amount.
    • He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
  5. (US) The quality of physical proximity.
    • The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
  6. (US, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each other; proximity.
    • Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.

See all 15 meanings of neighborhood

Phrases with neighborhoods

Questions about neighborhoods

What is neighborhoods the plural of?
Neighborhoods is the plural of neighborhood.

Words near neighborhoods in the dictionary

  1. neighborhood play
  2. neighborhood plays
  3. neighborhoodful
  4. neighborhooding
  5. neighborhoodlike
  6. neighborhoods
  7. neighborhoodsful
  8. neighborhoody
  9. neighboring
  10. neighboring rights
  11. neighborite

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Adapted from Wiktionary: neighborhoods (page history and authors); neighborhood (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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