Hyphenation of neighborhood

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word neighborhood? This word can be hyphenated and contains 3 syllables as shown below.

neigh-bor-hood

Definitions of neighborhood:

1.	A surrounding or nearby region The plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville It is a rugged locality He always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
2.	People living near one another It is a friendly neighborhood My neighborhood voted for Bush
3.	The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of') It was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job The price is in the neighborhood of $100
4.	An area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) An ethnic neighborhood

Synonyms of neighborhood:

noun	vicinity, locality, neighbourhood, neck of the woods, section
noun	neighbourhood, community
noun	region, indefinite quantity

Last hyphenations of this language

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Hyphenator

The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.