neighborhoodful
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
4
Syllables
12
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Enough to fill a neighborhood.
Example Sentences
- "THE Kewpies are giving a Christmas party, the best sort of party, to a whole neighborhoodful of poor children that the rich people forgot."
- "A neighborhoodful of farmers would rave for ten years about how the grain-buyers skinned them; and they would be perfectly right; they were being skinned."
- "“But there is another whole world out there, the black middle class, people who are making ends meet, who are sending their children to college. Two professionals in the household. Providing. And you don’t have to hide behind a tree (looking for them) and say, ‘There goes one, there goes one.’ They come in neighborhoodsful.”"
- "But, like Janet, you may not be able to stop until you've knitted a neighbourhoodful – they're quick to knit and a wonderful way to use up all your scraps of yarn."
Etymology
From neighborhood + -ful.