neighborhood

nouns

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"
locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood, vicinity
is derived from
neighbor
is derived from
neighbor
people living near one another
"it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
neighborhood, neighbourhood
is derived from
neighbor
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"
neighborhood, region
an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
"an ethnic neighborhood"
neighborhood
is a type of (narrower)
a particular geographical region of indefinite boundary (usually serving some special purpose or distinguished by its people or culture or geography)
"it was a mountainous area"; "Bible country"
area, country