neighbourhood

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: neigh=bour=hood

CIDE DICTIONARY

neighbourhood,  

 Same as neighbor, neighboring, neighborhood, neighborly.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

neighbourhood, n. (US neighborhood)
1 a a district, esp. one forming a community within a town or city. b the people of a district; one's neighbours.
2 neighbourly feeling or conduct.

Idiom

in the neighbourhood of roughly; about (paid in the neighbourhood of {pound}100). neighbourhood watch systematic local vigilance by householders to discourage crime, esp. against property.

THESAURUS

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