1. (

• vicinity ,
• locality ,
• neighborhood ,
• neighbourhood ,
• neck_of_the_woods

) 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" ;

2. (

• neighborhood ,
• neighbourhood

) people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" ;

3. (

• region ,
• neighborhood

) 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" ;

4. (

• neighborhood ,

) an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community); "an ethnic neighborhood" ;