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• n  a surrounding or nearby region
  he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
• n  people living near one another
  it is a friendly neighborhood
  my neighborhood voted for Bush
• n  the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
  the price is in the neighborhood of $100
• n  an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
  an ethnic neighborhood

• I lived in Mister Rogers' neighborhood.
• A neighborhood school is a school in a neighborhoodbut what's a neighborhood? In Chicago, which has the most sharply segregated school system of any major Northern city, a panel.
• A new study says gentrification isn't a bad word, and that on average, a changing neighborhood can be a boon for its residents.

• vicinity
• locality
• neighbourhood
• neck of the woods
• region

News & Articles

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• Neighborhood almost loses water service over dispute
  State regulators are working with the owner of a Yuma-area neighborhood water company to keep running after the owner nearly stopped offering service.Customers of Green Acres Water Company could have lost much if not all use of their indoor plumbing after the owner of the...
  June 14, 2013 - The Yuma Sun
• Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise director candidates have mixed backgrounds
  Chattanooga Neighborhood Enterprise is looking for redemption.
  June 14, 2013 - Chattanooga Times Free Press
• Neighborhood garage sale in San Anselmo
  The Morningside neighborhood of San Anselmo is gearing up for its ninth annual Neighborhood Garage Sale Saturday, June 15 from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
  June 12, 2013 - Ross Valley Reporter

Quotes

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• Ron Artest in Seyoh
  Well, first of all I want to thank everyone in my neighborhood,Artest said in an interview on ABC right after the match. "I definitely want to thank my doctors : my psychiatrist, she really helped me relax a lot."
• President Bush in International Herald Tribune
  He is the president of all the Palestinians,Bush said of Abbas, with Olmert by his side in the Oval Office. "He has spoken out for moderation. He is a voice that is a reasonable voice amongst the extremists in your neighborhood."
• Barack Obama in New York Times
  This is a guy who lives in my neighborhood, who'sa professor of English in Chicago ...... somebody who engaged in detestable acts 40 years ago when I was 8 years old,Obama complained.