loʊˈkælɪti ləʊˈkælɪti ˈneɪbə.hʊd ˈneɪbɚˌhʊd ˈɹiːd͡ʒn̩ vəˈsɪnəti people living near one another it is a friendly neighborhood my neighborhood voted for Bush 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 an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community) an ethnic 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