different between neighbourhood vs vicinage

English

neighbour +? -hood

neighbourhood (countable and uncountable, plural neighbourhoods)

From Old French visnage, respelled to more closer match its Latin source v?c?nus (“neighbor”).

vicinage (plural vicinages)

(now rare) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.
- 1748, Samuel Richardson, Clarissa, Letter 34:
  She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].
(now rare) The people of a neighbourhood.
The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
(Britain, US, law) The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.
(New Jersey, law) A geographical division of the w:New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court

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