neighborhood

Meanings

Noun

• a surrounding or nearby region
  • "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
• people living near one another
  • "it is a friendly neighborhood"
  • "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
• the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
  • "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"
• an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
  • "an ethnic neighborhood"

Synonyms

locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, region, vicinity