What does neighbourhood mean?
Word: Neighbourhood
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: Neighbourhood means the area around the place where you live, and the people who live there.
Synonyms: area, vicinity, community
How do you spell neighbourhood?
Syllables: neigh - bour - hood
Tricky part: The first part is neigh, with e before i and a silent gh, as in eight. British spelling keeps the u in bour.
Watch out for: naighbourhood, neibourhood, nabourhood
Memory tip: Start with the sound a horse makes, neigh: a horse in your neighbourhood says neigh.
Neighbourhood in a sentence
Example 1: Everyone in our neighbourhood helps decorate the street for the summer fair.
Example 2: A new library has opened in the neighbourhood.
Example 3: We know almost every dog in the neighbourhood by name.
Fun Fact
Neighbourhood first meant friendly feeling between neighbours, in the 1400s. The sense of an area where people live came about two centuries later.
Practise the CREST Way
Word Makeup
Choose the suffix that completes the word:
neighbour____
a) houd
b) hud
c) hode
d) hood
Show answer
d) hood. Hood, as in childhood, turns neighbour into the place where neighbours live.
Spell-o-Spell
Choose the correctly spelt word:
a) vilage
b) residant
c) neighbourhood
d) comunity
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c) neighbourhood. Community has two m's, resident ends in ent, and village has two l's.
Word Connection
Choose the synonym of the word:
neighbourhood
a) locality
b) landscape
c) address
d) household
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a) locality. A locality is a small area where people live, much the same as a neighbourhood.
Word Cookie
Find the misspelt word in the sentence:
The children of our neighbourhood planted saplings along both sides of the narow lane.
a) planted
b) neighbourhood
c) narow
d) saplings
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c) narow. Narrow has a double r, as arrow does.
Multiple Choice Questions
1. Which name belongs to a neighbourhood?
a) the continent of Asia
b) Soho in London
c) the country of Nepal
d) the state of Texas
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b) Soho in London
2. A neighbourhood watch group is made up of ____.
a) workers from a single factory
b) people living on the same few streets
c) police officers from another city
d) students from one school class
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b) people living on the same few streets
