neighborhood

Noun

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

• 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
    

• people living near one another
  • it is a friendly neighborhood
    
  • my neighborhood voted for Bush
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  region , neighbourhood , vicinity , locality , neck of the woods