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microneighborhood en · NOUN

Etymology

From micro- + neighborhood.

Meanings

1. (US) A very small urban neighborhood, usually extending the length of a city block or smaller.
   • Occasionally the resultant microneighborhood was a single block; more often it was part of one block plus the face of the block across the street. Or it might be both sides of a street for several blocks. 1982, Claude S. Fischer, To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 276:

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