Read full poem →Now singing shrill, and scolding oft between;
Scolds answer foul-mouth'd scolds; bad neighbourhood, I ween.
Dictionary Entry
The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
In a Sentence
“Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. neighbourhoodneighbourhood immediate
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Poetry examples for “neighbourhood”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Each of the other must have learn'd;
For no mere dues of neighbourhood
Ever begot so blest a mood.
Read full poem →Ere now, without such bitter pain.
But neighbourhood makes parting light,
And distance remedy has none;
Read full poem →The warmth of her confided arm,
Her bosom’s gentle neighbourhood,
Her pleasure in her power to charm;
Read full poem →In the new Heavens,—because nor sin nor woe,
Nor God’s infliction, nor death’s neighbourhood,
Nor all which others viewing, turn to go,
Read full poem →Take up a weeping on the Mountains wilde,
The gentle neighbourhood of grove and spring
Would soon unboosom all their Echoes milde,
Read full poem →Take up a weeping on the Mountains wilde,
The gentle neighbourhood of grove and spring
Would soon unboosom all their Echoes milde,
Read full poem →She strove the neighbourhood to please,
With manners wondrous winning,
Read full poem →She strove the neighbourhood to please,
With manners wond’rous winning, 10
Read full poem →In later life, most summers found the poet on board his yacht "The
Scandal" (so-called as being the staple product of the neighbourhood) in
company with 'Posh' as he dubbed Fletcher, the fisherman of Aldeburgh,