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neighborhood

Dictionary definition · neighborhood

noun

  1. a surrounding or nearby region"the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"
  2. people living near one another"it is a friendly neighborhood"
  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"
  4. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)"an ethnic neighborhood"

Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).