neighborhood (n.)

  1. a surrounding or nearby region; the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville; it is a rugged locality; he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood; I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods

    [ Syn: vicinity , locality , neighbourhood , neck of the woods ]

  2. people living near one another; it is a friendly neighborhood; my neighborhood voted for Bush

    [ Syn: neighbourhood ]

  3. the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of); it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job; the price is in the neighborhood of $100

    [ Syn: region ]

  4. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); an ethnic neighborhood'

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