Definitions for neighborhood



Overview of noun neighborhood

The noun neighborhood has 4 senses? (first 2 from tagged texts)
1. (28) vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods

(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")

2. (14) neighborhood, neighbourhood

(people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush")

3. region, 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"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100")

4. neighborhood

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

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