{
    "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
}