neighborhood

The word “neighborhood” has 3 syllables: neigh-bor-hood

It's pronounced as /ˈneɪ.bər.hʊd/


What is synonym and antonym for neighborhood?

In the thesaurus, “neighborhood” has 65 synonyms and 3 antonyms.

Here are synonyms and antonyms for neighborhood along with examples of usage in sentences.


Synonyms for neighborhood

  • adjacency
  • area
  • backyard
  • ballpark
  • barrio
  • belt
  • block
  • citizenry
  • city
  • closeness
  • commune
  • community
  • confines
  • contiguity
  • culture
  • denizens
  • department
  • district
  • division
  • dwellers
  • enclave
  • environment
  • environs
  • ghetto
  • hamlet
  • hood
  • inhabitants
  • jungle
  • locale
  • locality
  • matter
  • nabe
  • nearness
  • neck of the woods
  • parish
  • part
  • people
  • place
  • populace
  • precinct
  • propinquity
  • proximity
  • public
  • purlieus
  • quarter
  • region
  • residents
  • section
  • society
  • stomping ground
  • street
  • suburb
  • surround
  • surroundings
  • territory
  • town
  • tract
  • tune
  • turf
  • vicinage
  • vicinity
  • village
  • ward
  • zone
  • zoo

Antonyms for neighborhood

  • distance
  • remoteness
  • whole

Meanings of neighborhood

  • noun
    1. The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
    2. Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.
    3. The inhabitants of a residential area.
    4. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
    5. An approximate amount.
    6. The quality of physical proximity.
    7. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
    8. Within a topological space:.
    9. Within a metric space:.
    10. The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
    11. The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

Example Sentences

  • The children in our neighborhood often gather to play in the park after school.
  • We decided to move to a new neighborhood that has great schools and friendly neighbors.
  • Every summer, the neighborhood hosts a block party to bring everyone together.
  • My favorite café is just around the corner in the neighborhood where I live.
  • The neighborhood was decorated with colorful lights for the holiday season.

On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, or another words to neighborhood, such as: adjacency, area, backyard, ballpark, barrio, belt, block.

Make sure to choose synonyms and antonyms that are appropriate for the context of the sentence.

Related Words

about

  • abroad
  • across
  • adjacent
  • afloat
  • after a fashion
  • all but
  • all over
  • almost
  • along
  • alongside
  • any which way
  • anyhow
  • appreciably
  • approximately
  • apropos
  • apropos of
  • around
  • aroused
  • as concerns
  • as far as
  • as for
  • as good as
  • as regards
  • as respects
  • as to
  • astir
  • at
  • athwart
  • awake
  • awakened
  • aware
  • back
  • backward
  • backwards
  • behind
  • beside
  • borderline
  • by
  • by and large
  • chiefly
  • circa
  • concerning
  • conscious
  • counter
  • counterclockwise
  • dealing with
  • down
  • downward
  • downwards
  • encircling
  • everyplace
  • everywhere
  • fair
  • fairly
  • far and wide
  • feckly
  • generally
  • here and there
  • hereabout
  • hereabouts
  • high and low
  • in connection with
  • in general
  • in regard to
  • in relation to
  • in respect to
  • in reverse
  • in the ball park
  • in the neighborhood
  • in view of
  • insomniac
  • just about
  • kind of
  • largely
  • like
  • loosely
  • mainly
  • more or less
  • most
  • mostly
  • much
  • near
  • nearby
  • nearly
  • next door to
  • next to
  • nigh
  • nominally
  • obversely
  • of
  • on
  • over
  • partially
  • partly
  • passim
  • plus or minus
  • practically
  • pretty much
  • pretty nearly
  • rearward
  • rearwards
  • reawakened
  • referring to
  • regarding
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  • respecting
  • reversely
  • revived
  • right and left
  • roughly
  • round
  • roused
  • rousted
  • say
  • sleepless
  • some
  • somewhat
  • somewhere
  • somewhere about
  • somewhere around
  • surrounding
  • through
  • throughout
  • touching
  • touching on
  • toward
  • towards
  • ubiquitously
  • up
  • virtually
  • wakeful
  • wakened
  • well-nigh
  • widdershins
  • wide-awake
  • with regard to
  • with respect to
  • withershins
  • within an inch of

backyard

  • Sunday
  • amateur
  • amateurish
  • avocational
  • courtyard
  • dilettante
  • environment
  • environs
  • garden
  • grass
  • inexperienced
  • inexpert
  • jackleg
  • lawn
  • naive
  • neighborhood
  • nonprofessional
  • part-time
  • patio
  • play area
  • primitive
  • purlieus
  • self-taught
  • surround
  • surroundings
  • terrace
  • uninitiated
  • unprepared
  • unprofessional
  • unqualified
  • unschooled
  • unskilled
  • untaught
  • untrained
  • untutored
  • vicinage
  • vicinity
  • weekend
  • yard

backyards

  • environments
  • environs
  • neighborhoods
  • purlieus
  • surroundings
  • surrounds
  • vicinages
  • vicinities

bailiwick

  • ambit
  • amplitude
  • area
  • arena
  • barony
  • beat
  • breadth
  • business
  • circle
  • compass
  • confine
  • demesne
  • department
  • diocese
  • discipline
  • district
  • domain
  • element
  • extent
  • fief
  • fiefdom
  • field
  • firmament
  • front
  • frontier
  • game
  • jurisdiction
  • ken
  • kingdom
  • line
  • neighborhood
  • occupation
  • precinct
  • profession
  • province
  • pursuit
  • racket
  • reach
  • realm
  • scope
  • specialty
  • sphere
  • study
  • subfield
  • subject
  • subspecialty
  • sweep
  • terrain
  • territory
  • turf
  • vocation
  • walk
  • width

ballpark

  • Arcadia
  • Eden
  • Promised Land
  • Shangri-la
  • Zion
  • amphitheater
  • approximate
  • approximative
  • arena
  • around
  • athletic field
  • bliss
  • bowl
  • circus
  • cloud nine
  • coliseum
  • colosseum
  • debatable
  • delight
  • disputable
  • distorted
  • district
  • divine abode
  • dome
  • doubtful
  • dubious
  • environment
  • environs
  • erroneous
  • fallacious
  • false
  • faulty
  • felicity
  • field
  • flawed
  • general
  • gym
  • gymnasium
  • happy hunting ground
  • heaven
  • heavenly kingdom
  • hippodrome
  • hood
  • imprecise
  • inaccurate
  • inconclusive
  • incorrect
  • indecisive
  • indefinable
  • indefinite
  • indeterminate
  • indistinct
  • inexact
  • invalidated
  • kingdom come
  • locality
  • loose
  • matter
  • misleading
  • mistaken
  • mushy
  • nearness
  • neck of the woods
  • neighborhood
  • next world
  • off
  • park
  • pearly gates
  • playing field
  • precinct
  • pretty near
  • propinquity
  • proximity
  • purlieus
  • questionable
  • range
  • region
  • rink
  • spa
  • specious
  • sports dome
  • sports ground
  • sports venue
  • squishy
  • stadium
  • surroundings
  • territory
  • track
  • tune
  • turf
  • uncertain
  • unconfirmed
  • undefined
  • undetermined
  • unsettled
  • unsubstantiated
  • unsupported
  • utopia
  • vague
  • vicinage
  • vicinity
  • wonderland
  • wrong

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