neck of the woods

Questions about neck of the woods

What does neck of the woods mean?

neck of the woods means "a surrounding or nearby region".

What is another word for neck of the woods?

Close synonyms include vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is neck of the woods a common word?

neck of the woods is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.