noun
1. a surrounding or nearby region (Freq. 28)
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the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
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it is a rugged locality
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he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
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I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
• Syn: ↑vicinity, ↑locality, ↑neighbourhood, ↑neck of the woods
• Derivationally related forms: ↑neighbour (for: ↑neighbourhood), ↑neighbor, ↑local (for: ↑locality), ↑vicinal (for: ↑vicinity)
• Hypernyms: ↑section
• Hyponyms: ↑gold coast, ↑'hood, ↑place, ↑proximity, ↑scenery
• Instance Hyponyms: ↑Left Bank, ↑Latin Quarter, ↑Montmartre, ↑Right Bank, ↑Charlestown
2. people living near one another (Freq. 14)
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it is a friendly neighborhood
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my neighborhood voted for Bush
• Syn: ↑neighbourhood
• Derivationally related forms: ↑neighbour (for: ↑neighbourhood), ↑neighbor
• Hypernyms: ↑community
3. the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
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it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
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the price is in the neighborhood of $100
• Syn: ↑region
• Hypernyms: ↑indefinite quantity
4. an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
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an ethnic neighborhood
Useful english dictionary. 2012.