neighborhood

noun

1. 1

   people living near one another

   it is a friendly neighborhood

   my neighborhood voted for Bush

2. 2

   a surrounding or nearby region

   the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville

   it is a rugged locality

3. 3

   an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)

   an ethnic neighborhood

4. 4

   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