neighborhood in WordNet English dictionary

1. 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"
   vicinity  locality  neighborhood  neighbourhood  neck of the woods 
   
2. people living near one another
   "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
   neighborhood  neighbourhood 
   
3. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
   "an ethnic neighborhood"
   neighborhood 
   
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"
   region  neighborhood