A surrounding or nearby region:
— He always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood.

synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighbourhood, vicinity.

Roget 197: nearness etc. adj.; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity etc. 199.    short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters, stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.    purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours [Fr.], suburbs, confines, banlieue^†, borderland; whereabouts.    bystander; neighbor, borderer^†.    approach etc. 286; convergence etc. 290; perihelion.    ... show more

Roget 227: circumjacence^†, circumambience^†; environment, encompassment; atmosphere, medium, surroundings.    outpost; border etc. (edge) 231; girdle etc. (circumference) 230; outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs^†, environs, entourage, banlieue^†; neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity.    ... show more

Dutch: wijk, buurt, contreie, contreien, kader, milieu, nabijheid, omgeving, omstreek, omstreken, omtrek ... show more
Polish: okolica, pobliże, sąsiedztwo

People living near one another:
— It is a friendly neighborhood.
— My neighborhood voted for Bush.

synonym: neighbourhood.

Polish: okolica

The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of'):
— The price is in the neighborhood of $100.

synonym: region.

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