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Neighbourhood vs Neighbour - What's the difference?

neighbourhood | neighbour | Derived terms |

Neighbour is a derived term of neighbourhood.



As nouns the difference between neighbourhood and neighbour

is that neighbourhood is standard spelling of from=British|lang=en|neighborhood while neighbour is a person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.

As a verb neighbour is

to be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring.

neighbourhood

English

Noun

(en noun)

    • neighbour

    English

    Alternative forms

    * (US) neighbor * (archaic) neyghbour * (obsolete) naybor, naybour, neibor, neibour, neighbore, neighboure, neyghbor, neyghbore, neyghboure

    Noun

  • (en noun) (British spelling)
  • A person living on adjacent or nearby land; a person situated adjacently or nearby; anything (of the same type of thing as the subject) in an adjacent or nearby position.
    • My neighbour has an annoying cat.
    They?re our neighbours across the street.
    My neighbour is very irritable and grumpy at times.
  • * 1660 , , The Tales and Jests of Mr. Hugh Peters , reprinted 1807, page 10,
    • Being at his own house in the country, when a great tempest of wind rose, he takes an occasion to visit a neighbour' by him, and being somewhat merily disposed, quoth he Oh ' neighbour , did you not see what a wind there was the other day?
  • * 1913 , , 2010, unnumbered page,
    • Undine at length shrank back with an unrecognizing face; but her movement made her opera-glass slip to the floor, and her neighbour bent down and picked it up.
  • * 1973 , , Nova Scotia: Window on the Sea , page 126,
    • Neighbours' enact their substantive noun when there?s a ' neighbour?s sickness in the night; as friends do theirs, the cindered and the green times through.
  • * 2009 , D. Staufer, Classical Percolation'', Asok K. Sen, Kamal K. Bardhan, Bikas K. Chakrabarti (editors), ''Quantum and Semi-Classical Percolation and Breakdown in Disordered Solids , Springer, Lecture Notes in Physics 762, page 4,
    • Then a cluster is grown by letting each empty neighbour' of an already occupied cluster site decide once and for all, whether it is occupied or empty. One needs to keep and to update a perimeter list of empty ' neighbours .
  • * 2011', Richard Jensen, Chris Cornelis, ''Fuzzy-Rough Nearest '''Neighbour Classification'', James F. Peters, Andrzej Skowron (editors-in-chief), ''Transactions on Rough Sets XIII , Springer, Lecture Notes in Computing Science 6499, page 56,
    • By contrast to the latter, our method uses the nearest neighbours to construct lower and upper approximations of decision classes, and classifies test instances based on their membership to these approximations.
  • One who is near in sympathy or confidence.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Buckingham / No more shall be the neighbour to my counsel.
  • (biblical) any fellow human being
  • * You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the children of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord. —Leviticus 19:18 (NKJV)

    • Synonyms

    * (l) * (christian sense) fellow, fellow man

    Antonyms

    * (biblical) stranger, foreigner

    Derived terms

    * good fences make good neighbours * love for one's neighbour * neighbourhood (pos n) * neighbouring (pos n) * neighbourly (pos a) * neighbourliness (pos n)

    Verb

    (en-verb) (British spelling)
  • To be adjacent to (more often used as neighbouring)
    • Though France neighbours Germany, its culture is significantly different.
  • * Sandys
    • leisurely ascending hills that neighbour the shore
  • To approach; to verge on.
    • That sort of talk is neighbouring on treason.
  • To associate intimately with.
    • (Shakespeare)