Dictionary definition · neighborhood
noun
- a surrounding or nearby region"the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"
- people living near one another"it is a friendly 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"
- an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)"an ethnic neighborhood"
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Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).