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Surroundings vs Neighborhood - What's the difference?

surroundings | neighborhood |

As nouns the difference between surroundings and neighborhood

is that surroundings is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals while neighborhood is the quality of being a neighbor, of living nearby, next to each-other; proximity.

surroundings

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • English plurals
  • the area surrounding someone or something, together with the objects and circumstances in the vicinity; the environment or ambiance
  • (physics) All parts of the universe that are not within the thermodynamic system of interest.

    • 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)