The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')

Usage examples of neighborhood.

The household was abustle, and Matt had informed her that she had somewhere in the neighborhood of half an hour to get breakfast prepared and the boys off to school.

Neighborhood cops complain that acidheads throw themselves in front of moving cars, strip naked in grocery stores and run through plate-glass windows.

Southern Baptist Alabamans, branched out to the predominantly black neighborhood of Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Etearchus, an Ammonian king who lived in the neighborhood of modern Derna.

In the reign of the emperor Caracalla, an innumerable swarm of Suevi appeared on the banks of the Mein, and in the neighborhood of the Roman provinces, in quest either of food, of plunder, or of glory.

Say Metro approves an ugly shopping center for your quiet suburban neighborhood.

Tallam had probably picked the course, through a study of the neighborhood, and had put Ashanti servitors to work.

Abandoned buildings, crumbling streets, and rundown neighborhoods prevailed along both sides of the busy road that many Austinites used to go from north to south and back, avoiding the more heavily trafficked I-35 and Mopac.

Whenever tetracycline appears in the neighborhood, a Bacteroides transposon goes into overdrive, manufacturing R-plasmids at a frantic rate and then passing them to other bacteria in an orgy of sexual encounters a hundred times more frequent than normal.

The scene was a new, makeshift Reform synagogue in the Baka neighborhood of Jerusalem.

She took a cab from the airport directly to the Barbizon for Women on Lexington and Sixty-third, and she loved the neighborhood the moment she saw it.

No one in the meeting had the heart to suggest that Nostrildamus might see the future differently if the child had been white and middle-class, instead of a biracial girl from a marginal city neighborhood.

The other route to the beleaguered Torminel neighborhood was on a major highway, and Casimir and the Bogo Boys, driving big trucks in line abreast, managed to occupy all available lanes ahead of the Naxids.

Those who remember the Poletown neighborhood before the old Dodge Main plant was taken down recall the sight of women in babushkas buying and selling poultry in the Chene-Ferry Market and ox-shouldered line-workers fisting boilermakers in the Round Bar between shifts.

She drove carefully down the steep winding road, through the neighborhood toward the entrance of Bonita Vista.