Synonyms: neighborhood, neighbourhood
Definition: people living near one another
Usage: it is a friendly neighborhood; my neighborhood voted for Bush
Similar words: community
Definition: a group of people living in a particular local area
Usage: the team is drawn from all parts of the community
Synonyms: vicinity, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, locality
Definition: a surrounding or nearby region
Usage: 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
Similar words: section
Definition: a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people
Usage: no section of the nation is more ardent than the South; there are three synagogues in the Jewish section
Synonyms: neighborhood
Definition: an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
Usage: an ethnic neighborhood
Definition: a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
Usage: it was a mountainous area; Bible country
Synonyms: region, neighborhood
Definition: the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
Usage: 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
Similar words: indefinite quantity
Definition: an estimated quantity