1. (noun)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. (noun)neighborhood, neighbourhood people living near one another
"it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
3. (noun)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. (noun)neighborhood an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
"an ethnic neighborhood"