microneighborhood

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From micro- +‎ neighborhood.

Noun

microneighborhood (plural microneighborhoods)

  1. (American spelling) A very small urban neighborhood, usually extending the length of a city block or smaller.
    • 1982, Claude S. Fischer, To Dwell Among Friends: Personal Networks in Town and City, University of Chicago Press, →ISBN, page 276:
      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.
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