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(noun) neighbourhood
people living near one another
it is a friendly neighborhood; my neighborhood voted for Bush
(noun) vicinity, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, locality
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
(noun) region
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