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Neighborhood vs Barrio - What's the difference?

neighborhood | barrio |

As nouns the difference between neighborhood and barrio

is that neighborhood is the quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity while barrio is a slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.

neighborhood

English

Alternative forms

* neighbourhood (UK)

Noun

  • (chiefly, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
    • ''Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
  • * 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 399-402:
    • Nor content with such / Audacious neighbourhood , the wisest heart / Of Solomon he led by fraud to build / His Temple right against the Temple of God.
  • * 1835 , , Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes :
    • Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood .
  • Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.
    • He lives in my neighborhood .
  • The inhabitants of a residential area.
    • ''The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
  • A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
    • We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood .
  • An approximate amount.
    • He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
  • The quality of physical proximity.
    • The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood .
  • (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
  • (topology) An open set which contains the point in question.
  • (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
  • (label) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.
  • (topology) A set containing an open set which contains point in question.
  • (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.

    • Synonyms

    * vicinity * proximity * quarter

    Derived terms

    * microneighborhood, microneighbourhood * hood * nabe

    See also

    * ("neighborhood" on Wikipedia)

    barrio

    English

    (wikipedia barrio)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (in Venezuela or the Dominican Republic) A slum on the periphery of a major city; a low to middle-class neighborhood in a lesser city.
  • (in some Spanish-speaking countries) A municipality or subdivision of a municipality.
  • (in the Phillippines) A barangay.
  • * 2008 , Resil B. Mojares, Beast in the Fields'', Gémino H. Abad (editor), ''Upon Our Own Ground: Filipino short stories in English: 1956 to 1972 , page 413,
    • In the barrio', they talked excitedly about the wood-gatherer's discovery. There was so much pushing and quibbling over details that by the time the ' barrio had organized itself to set out for Salug to investigate, dusk had already fallen.
  • (informal, US) An area or neighborhood in a US city inhabited predominantly by Spanish-speakers or people of Hispanic origin.
  • * 1993 , Diego Vigil, The Established Gang'', Scott Cummings, Daniel J. Monti (editors), ''Gangs: The Origins and Impact of Contemporary Youth Gangs in the United States , page 98,
    • After World War II, its prospering working-class white residents moved to other, more upscale suburban developments, and by the 1950s the area had become an isolated ethnic enclave with its own barrio gang.
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