the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity

the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets.

a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants

a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood.

a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality

The whole neighborhood was there.

neighborly feeling or conduct.

nearness; proximity

to sense the neighborhood of trouble.

Mathematics . an open set that contains a given point. ?

in the neighborhood of

approximately; nearly; about

She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70.

noun

adjacency , area , block , closeness , confines , contiguity , district , environs , ghetto , hood , jungle * , locale , locality , nearness , neck of the woods , parish , part , precinct , propinquity , proximity , purlieus , quarter , region , section , slum , stomping ground , street , suburb , territory , tract , turf , vicinage , vicinity , ward , zone , zoo , belt , surroundings , range , community , habitat , milieu , neighbors , precincts , purlieu , venue(law)