Neighborhood vs Purlieu - What's the difference?
neighborhood | purlieu |
(chiefly, obsolete) The quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.
* 1667 , John Milton, Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 399-402:
* 1835 , , Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes :
Close proximity, nearby area; particularly, close proximity to one's home.
The inhabitants of a residential area.
A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.
An approximate amount.
The quality of physical proximity.
(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.
(historical) The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
*1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
*:He seemed to wish to keep hold of him, and looked at him strangely, over his spectacles... when he learned that Hyacinth had taken a lodging not in their old familiar quarter but in the unexplored purlieus of Westminster.
As nouns the difference between neighborhood and purlieu
is that neighborhood is (obsolete) the quality of being a neighbor, living nearby, next to each-other while purlieu is (historical) the ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.neighborhood
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Alternative forms
* neighbourhood (UK)Noun
- ''Our neighborhood was our only reason to exchange hollow greetings.
- 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.
- Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood .
- He lives in my neighborhood .
- ''The fire alarmed the neighborhood.
- We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood .
- He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.
- The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood .
