different between neighborhood vs commune

English

Alternative forms

• neighbourhood (UK)

Etymology

From an alteration of earlier neighborred (“neighborhood”), from Middle English ne?eburredde, neheborreden, equivalent to neighbor +? -red; the alteration being interpreted as though from neighbor +? -hood. For change in suffix (-red to -hood), compare brotherhood.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?ne?b?.h?d/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?ne?b??h?d/

Noun

neighborhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighborhoods) (American spelling)

1. (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.

   • 1595, George Peele, The Old Wives’ Tale, The Malone Society Reprints, 1908, lines 243-245,^[1]

     […] if you do any thing for charity, helpe me; if for neighborhood or brotherhood, helpe me […]

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Henry V, Act V, Scene 2,^[2]

     Take her, fair son, and from her blood raise up

     Issue to me; that the contending kingdoms

     Of France and England, whose very shores look pale

     With envy of each other’s happiness,

     May cease their hatred; and this dear conjunction

     Plant neighbourhood and Christian-like accord

     In their sweet bosoms […]

   • 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, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Rienzi, the Last of the Roman Tribunes:

     Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighbourhood.

2. (dated) Close proximity; nearness.
   • 1853, Charles Boner, Chamois Hunting in the Mountains of Bavaria (page 286)

     At first he was partly hidden among the latschen, then his hind-quarters, quite black, emerged from the dark green bushes, as he slowly moved on, perfectly unconscious of our neighbourhood.

3. The residential area near one's home.

   He lives in my neighborhood.

4. The inhabitants of a residential area.

   The fire alarmed the neighborhood.

5. A formal or informal division of a municipality or region.

   We have just moved to a pleasant neighborhood.

6. An approximate amount.

   He must be making in the neighborhood of $200,000 per year.

7. The quality of physical proximity.

   The slums and the palace were in awful neighborhood.

8. (obsolete) The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will.
9. (topology) Within a topological space:
   1. A set containing an open set which contains some specified point.
   2. Alternatively: An open set which contains some specified point.
10. (topology) Within a metric space:
    1. A set containing an open ball which contains a specified point.
    2. Alternatively: An open ball which contains some specified point.
11. (topology) The infinitesimal open set of all points that may be reached directly from a given point.
12. (graph theory) The set of all the vertices adjacent to a given vertex.

Synonyms

• vicinity
• proximity
• quarter

Derived terms

Translations

See also

• neighborship
• neighborhood on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English commune, comune, from Old French comune, commune, from Medieval Latin comm?nia, from Latin comm?ne (“community, state”), from comm?nis (“common”). See also community, communion, common.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: k?m'yo?on, IPA^(key): /?k?mju?n/
• (US) enPR: käm'yo?on, IPA^(key): /?k?mju?n/

Noun

commune (countable and uncountable, plural communes)

1. A small community, often rural, whose members share in the ownership of property, and in the division of labour; the members of such a community.
2. A local political division in many European countries.
3. (obsolete) The commonalty; the common people.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

4. (uncountable, obsolete) communion; sympathetic intercourse or conversation between friends

   • For days of happy commune dead.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English communen, comunen, from Old French comunier, communier (“to share”), from Latin comm?nico. Doublet of communicate.

Pronunciation

• enPR: k?myo?on', IPA^(key): /k??mju?n/

Verb

commune (third-person singular simple present communes, present participle communing, simple past and past participle communed)

1. To converse together with sympathy and confidence; to interchange sentiments or feelings; to take counsel.
2. (intransitive, followed by with) To communicate (with) spiritually; to be together (with); to contemplate or absorb.

3. (Christianity, intransitive) To receive the communion.
   • 1679-1715, Gilbert Burnet, History of the Reformation

     Namely, in these things, in prohibiting that none should commune alone, in making the people whole communers, or in suffering them to commune under both kinds […]

Dutch

Etymology

From Middle Dutch commune, from Old French commune, from Latin [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?k??myn?/
• Hyphenation: com?mu?ne
• Rhymes: -yn?

Noun

commune f (plural communes, diminutive communetje n)

1. A commune (community living together with common property).

Descendants

• ? Indonesian: komune

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?.myn/

Etymology 1

From Medieval Latin communia, neuter plural of communis.

Noun

commune f (plural communes)

1. commune (administrative subdivision)

Descendants

Etymology 2

Adjective

commune

1. feminine singular of commun

Further reading

• “commune” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Adjective

commune (plural communi)

1. Obsolete form of comune.

Noun

commune m (plural communi)

1. Obsolete form of comune.

Derived terms

• communità

Latin

Adjective

comm?ne

1. nominative neuter singular of comm?nis
2. accusative neuter singular of comm?nis
3. vocative neuter singular of comm?nis

References

• commune in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• commune in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• commune in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
• commune in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• Carl Meissner; Henry William Auden (1894) Latin Phrase-Book?^[1], London: Macmillan and Co.