neck of the woods

Questions about neck of the woods

What is another word for neck of the woods?

It depends which neck of the woods you mean. In the sense “a surrounding or nearby region”, the synonyms are vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of neck of the woods?

WordNet records no antonym for neck of the woods. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for neck of the woods come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of neck of the woods

• Full entry for neck of the woodsAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for neck of the woodsWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
• Thesaurus homeHow WordNet synsets work, and the collections built for synonym work.