Meanings
nounmicroneighborhood (plural microneighborhoods)
plural microneighborhoods · alternative UK microneighbourhood
- USA 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
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*mey-der.?
- Ancient Greekμῑκρός (mīkrós)
- Ancient Greekμῑκρο- (mīkro-)
- Englishmicro-
- Englishneighborhood
- Englishmicroneighborhood
From micro- + neighborhood.
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