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Meaning of neighborhood

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  neighborhood
      n 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" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality}, {neighborhood},
           {neighbourhood}, {neck of the woods}]
      2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly
         neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn:
         {neighborhood}, {neighbourhood}]
      3: 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" [syn: {region},
         {neighborhood}]
      4: an area within a city or town that has some distinctive
         features (especially one forming a community); "an ethnic
         neighborhood"

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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