Neighborhood - Definition
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, neighborhood,
neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly
neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn:
neighborhood, 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,
neighborhood]
4: an area within a city or town that has some distinctive
features (especially one forming a community); "an ethnic
neighborhood"