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Noun neighborhood has 3 senses
- vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods - 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"
--1 is a kind of section
--1 has particulars:
- neighborhood, neighbourhood - people living near one another; "it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush"
--2 is a kind of community
--2 has particulars: street
- region, neighborhood - 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"
--3 is a kind of indefinite quantity
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