| Main Entry: | neighborhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community, surroundings |
Synonyms: |
adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |
| Main Entry: | area |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | region, district |
Synonyms: |
belt, block, city, county, division, domain, dominion, enclosure, field, kingdom, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, parcel, patch, plot, precinct, principality, quarter, section, sector, sphere, square, state, stretch, territory, township, tract, turf, vicinity, ward, zone |
| Main Entry: | communal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | collective; shared |
Synonyms: |
common, communistic, community, conjoint, conjunct, cooperative, general, intermutual, joint, mutual, neighborhood, public |
Antonyms: |
individual, personal, private, unshared |
| Main Entry: | commune |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | group living together |
Synonyms: |
collective, commonage, commonality, community, cooperative, family, kibbutz, municipality, neighborhood, rank and file, village |
| Main Entry: | community |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | society, area of people |
Synonyms: |
association, body politic, center, colony, commonality, commonwealth, company, district, general public, hamlet, locality, nation, neck of the woods, neighborhood, people, populace, public, residents, society, state, stomping ground, territory, turf |
| Main Entry: | district |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | geographical area |
Synonyms: |
commune, community, department, locale, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, parcel, parish, precinct, quarter, region, section, sector, stomping ground, territory, turf*, vicinage, vicinity, ward |
| Main Entry: | environment |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | surroundings, atmosphere |
Synonyms: |
ambiance, aura, backdrop, background, circumstances, climate, conditions, context, domain, element, encompassment, entourage, habitat, hood, jungle*, locale, medium, milieu, neck of the woods, neighborhood, purlieus, scene, scenery, setting, situation, status, stomping ground, surroundings, terrain, territory, turf, zoo |
| Notes: | environment emerged linked with nature, implying 'natural' (not human, not cultural) surroundings; ecology emerged as a scientific effort to connect organisms (such as the human) to their environments environment is the area in which something exists or lives; habitat is a the place or type of place where a person or thing is most likely to be found |
| Main Entry: | extent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | range, magnitude |
Synonyms: |
admeasurement, ambit, amount, amplitude, area, bounds, breadth, bulk, capaciousness, compass, degree, dimensions, duration, elbowroom, expanse, expansion, extension, intensity, leeway, length, limit, mass, matter, measure, neighborhood, orbit, order, period of time, play, proliferation, proportions, purview, quantity, radius, reach, scope, size, space, spaciousness, span, sphere, stretch, sweep, term, territory, time, tract, tune, vicinity, volume, wideness, width |
| Main Entry: | home |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | birthplace, environment |
Synonyms: |
abode, camping ground, country, element, family, farm, fireside, habitat, habitation, haunt, haven, hearth, hills, home ground, homeland, homestead, hometown, household, land, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, range, roof, site, soil, stamping ground, stomping ground, territory |
| Main Entry: | local |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of a community, restricted to immediate area |
Synonyms: |
bounded, civic, confined, district, divisional, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, small-town, territorial, town, vernacular |
Antonyms: |
foreign, nonnative |