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{
"term": "neighbourhood",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "b1",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a district or an area of a town; the people who live there",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We grew up in the same neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "a poor/quiet/residential neighbourhood"
},
{
"text": "an old working-class neighbourhood"
},
{
"text": "Manhattan is divided into distinct neighborhoods."
},
{
"text": "the neighbourhood police"
},
{
"text": "He shouted so loudly that the whole neighbourhood could hear him."
},
{
"text": "Before long the whole neighbourhood knew about it."
},
{
"text": "The school is situated in the most affluent neighbourhood of the city."
},
{
"text": "I lived in a tough neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "Our health depends on creating neighbourhoods that are conducive to walking."
},
{
"text": "She volunteered to make a potato salad for the neighbourhood party."
},
{
"text": "The place feels like a real neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "There was a large school in the neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "There were various parks around the neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "They hired a private police force to patrol the neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "They often got together with other parents in the local neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "Tourists rarely visit that neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "We used to ride bikes around the neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "a bar located in the middle of Chicago's gay neighbourhood"
},
{
"text": "a neighbourhood populated mainly by Mexican Americans"
},
{
"text": "stray dogs who roam the neighbourhood"
},
{
"text": "the criminals who are destroying our neighbourhood"
},
{
"text": "We live in a quiet, residential neighbourhood in the south of the city."
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["friendly", "nice", "safe"],
"verb + neighbourhood/neighborhood": ["build", "create", "establish"],
"neighbourhood/neighborhood + noun": ["resident", "boy", "children"],
"preposition": [
"around the neighbourhood",
"round the neighbourhood",
"in a/the neighbourhood"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the area that you are in or the area near a particular place",
"sensetop": "in the neighbourhood of…",
"cefr": "b1",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "We searched the surrounding neighbourhood for the missing boy."
},
{
"text": "It was a car from outside the immediate neighbourhood."
},
{
"text": "Houses in the neighbourhood of Paris are extremely expensive.",
"contextForm": "in the neighbourhood of…"
}
],
"synonyms": "vicinity",
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["friendly", "nice", "safe"],
"verb + neighbourhood/neighborhood": ["build", "create", "establish"],
"neighbourhood/neighborhood + noun": ["resident", "boy", "children"],
"preposition": [
"around the neighbourhood",
"round the neighbourhood",
"in a/the neighbourhood"
]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "approximately; not exactly",
"examples": [
{
"text": "It cost in the neighbourhood of $500."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈneɪbəhʊd/",
"audio": "ne/neighbourhood/neighbourhood__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈneɪbərhʊd/",
"audio": "ne/neighbourhood/neighbourhood__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}