neighbourhood

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

neighbourhood
    n 1: 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" [syn: {vicinity}, {locality}, {neighborhood},
         {neighbourhood}, {neck of the woods}]
    2: people living near one another; "it is a friendly
       neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" [syn:
       {neighborhood}, {neighbourhood}]

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

neighbour \neighbour\, neighbouring \neighbouring\,
neighbourhood \neighbourhood\, neighbourly \neighbourly\
   Same as {neighbor}, {neighboring}, {neighborhood},
   {neighborly}. [Chiefly Brit.]
   [PJC]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "neighbourhood":
      about, almost, approximately, area, around, close to, confines,
      district, environs, locale, locality, more or less, nearly,
      practically, precincts, purlieus, quarter, region, surroundings,
      vicinage, vicinity