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| 1. | the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets. |
| 2. | a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants: a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood. |
| 3. | a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality: The whole neighborhood was there. |
| 4. | neighborly feeling or conduct. |
| 5. | nearness; proximity: to sense the neighborhood of trouble. |
| 6. | Mathematics. an open set that contains a given point. |
| 7. | in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about: She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70. |
in the neighborhood of
Also, in the region of. Approximately, about, as in They paid in the neighborhood of a million dollars, or I don't know exactly what the exchange rate is
somewhere in the region of 95 yen to the dollar. The first expression dates from the mid-1800s, the variant from the mid-1900s.