neighborhood

noun

1 a quiet neighborhood:

district, area, locality, locale, quarter, community, part, region, zone;

informal neck of the woods, parts;

British, informal manor;

North American, informal hood, nabe.

2 in the neighborhood of Canterbury:

vicinity, surrounding district/area, environs, purlieus, precincts, proximity;

North American vicinage.

□ in the neighborhood of

the cost was believed to be in the neighborhood of $4. 5m:

approximately, about, around, roughly, in the region of, of the order of, not far off, nearly, almost, close to, just about, practically, more or less, or so, there or thereabouts, as near as dammit to;

British getting on for;

Latin circa;

North American, informal in the ballpark of.