"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"
people living near one another;
"it is a friendly neighborhood"
"my neighborhood voted for Bush"
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"
an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community);