Neighborhood vs. Neighbourhood — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Neighborhood and Neighbourhood
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Definitions
Neighborhood➦
A district or area with distinctive characteristics
A neighborhood of fine homes.
A working-class neighborhood.
Neighbourhood➦
A neighbourhood (British English, Australian English and Canadian English) or neighborhood (American English; see spelling differences) is a geographically localised community within a larger city, town, suburb or rural area. Neighbourhoods are often social communities with considerable face-to-face interaction among members.
Neighborhood➦
The people who live near one another or in a particular district or area
The noise upset the entire neighborhood.
Neighbourhood➦
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Neighborhood➦
The surrounding area; vicinity
Happened to be in the neighborhood.
Neighbourhood➦
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
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Neighborhood➦
(Informal) Approximate amount or range
In the neighborhood of five million dollars.
Neighbourhood➦
People living near one another;
It is a friendly neighborhood
My neighborhood voted for Bush
Neighborhood➦
Friendliness appropriate to a neighbor
A feeling of neighborhood.
Neighborhood➦
(Mathematics) The set of points surrounding a specified point, each of which is within a certain, usually small distance from the specified point.
Neighborhood➦
The residential area near one's home.
He lives in my neighborhood.
Neighborhood➦
The inhabitants of a residential area.
The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
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Neighborhood➦
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.
Neighborhood➦
An approximate amount.
He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
Neighborhood➦
The quality of physical proximity.
The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
Neighborhood➦
The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
Neighborhood➦
(dated) Close proximity; nearness.
Neighborhood➦
(obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
Neighborhood➦
(topology) Within a topological space:
Neighborhood➦
A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
Neighborhood➦
Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
Neighborhood➦
(topology) Within a metric space:
Neighborhood➦
A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
Neighborhood➦
Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
Neighborhood➦
(topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
Neighborhood➦
(graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
Neighborhood➦
The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity.
Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood.
Neighborhood➦
A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood.
Neighborhood➦
The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood.
Neighborhood➦
The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
Neighborhood➦
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
Neighborhood➦
People living near one another;
It is a friendly neighborhood
My neighborhood voted for Bush
Neighborhood➦
The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of');
It was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job
The price is in the neighborhood of $100
