neighborhood

n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the

vicinty of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he

always blames someone else in the immediate

neighborhood" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality}, {neighbourhood}]

2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly

neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn: {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}]