NEIGHBORHOOD
(noun) people living near one another
"it is a friendly neighborhood", "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
synonyms : neighbourhood(noun) 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"
synonyms : locality , neck of the woods , neighbourhood , vicinity(noun) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
"an ethnic neighborhood"
(noun) 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"
synonyms : region
WordNet® 3.0, © 2006 by Princeton University.


