Main entry: neighborhood, neighbourhood
Definition: people living near one another
Usage: it is a friendly neighborhood; my neighborhood voted for Bush
Main entry: 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
Main entry: neighborhood
Definition: an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
Usage: an ethnic neighborhood
Main entry: 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