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Neighborhood vs Neighborship - What's the difference?

neighborhood | neighborship |

As nouns the difference between neighborhood and neighborship

is that neighborhood is (chiefly|obsolete) the quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity while neighborship is the state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically.

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)

    neighborship

    English

    Alternative forms

    * neighbourship

    Noun

  • The state or condition of being neighbors; a community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on living close geographically.
  • :* {{quote-book
    • , year=1990 , year_published= , edition= , editor= , author=Carolyn Marvin , title=When Old Technologies Were New , chapter=Community and Class Order citation , genre= , publisher=Oxford Univ. Press , isbn=9780195063417 , page=66 , passage=… the telephone had introduced the "epoch of neighborship without propinquity." }}
  • A community, connection, or relationship between or among people and/or things which is based simply on being of a similar class.
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2002-12-27 , year= , first= , last= , author=Cory Doctorow , authorlink= , title=WiFi: What threat? , site=BoingBoing citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-02-01 , passage=The 802.11b spec takes pretty good care to enforce good neighborship on connected hosts. }}
  • :* {{quote-web
    • , date=2010-02-10 , year= , first= , last= , author=Hanspeter Spek, President, Global Operations , authorlink= , title=Sanofi-Aventis Q4 2009 Earnings Call Transcript , site=Seeking Alpha citation , archiveorg= , accessdate=2012-02-05 , passage=But we believe that Cambridge is really the heart of oncology today. And we intend to benefit from this as an environment – as a neighborship . }}

    References

    (Webster)