Region vs Neighborhood - What's the difference?
region | neighborhood |
Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
(historical) Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
(figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
(anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
(obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
(obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
(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.
As nouns the difference between region and neighborhood
is that region is region; area while neighborhood is (chiefly|obsolete) the quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.region
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Noun
(wikipedia region) (en noun)- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- the abdominal regions
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*Anagrams
* ----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 .