nabe
/neɪb/noun
nabe is a noun meaning “Neighborhood” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled N-A-B-E, and it appears about once in every 15 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of nabe is nabes.
What does nabe mean?
noun
- 1
slangNeighborhood.
Cagers Will Attend ‘Nabe’ Gym Smoker. Practically every basketball player in the city has promised to attend the benefit smoker at the Neighborhood House gym, Tenth and Galapago, Monday night.
- 2
slangNeighborhood theater, neighborhood cinema.
They picked an aging star, slapped together a moldy script, and sent the result out to the nabes.
- 3
slangA Japanese hot pot dish.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce nabe?
- /neɪb/
As a noun (“A Japanese hot pot dish”): /ˈnɑbeɪ/.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of nabe
- nabes plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is nabe?
Nabe appears about once in every 15 million words in written English, the 115,751st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does nabe come from?
Clipping of neighborhood; compare hood. In attributive use, attested since 1922; in noun sense “neighborhood”, since 1942; in noun sense “neighborhood theater”, since 1933, originally in New York City.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).