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neighborhood 音標拼音: [n'ebɚh ,ʊd] n. 鄰居,四鄰,近鄰,附近
a. 附近的,地方的 鄰居,四鄰,近鄰,附近附近的,地方的 neighborhood鄰域 neighborhood鄰域 neighborhood n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; " the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; " it is a rugged locality"; " he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; " I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" [ synonym: { vicinity}, { locality}, { neighborhood}, { neighbourhood}, { neck of the woods}] 2: people living near one another; " it is a friendly neighborhood"; " my neighborhood voted for Bush" [ synonym: { neighborhood}, { neighbourhood}] 3: the approximate amount of something ( usually used prepositionally as in ` in the region of'); " it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"; " the price is in the neighborhood of $ 100" [ synonym: { region}, { neighborhood}] 4: an area within a city or town that has some distinctive features ( especially one forming a community); " an ethnic neighborhood" Neighborhood \ Neigh" bor* hood\, n. [ Written also neighbourhood.] 1. The quality or condition of being a neighbor; the state of being or dwelling near; proximity. [ 1913 Webster] Then the prison and the palace were in awful neighborhood. -- Ld. Lytton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A place near; vicinity; adjoining district; a region the inhabitants of which may be counted as neighbors; as, he lives in my neighborhood. [ 1913 Webster] 3. The inhabitants who live in the vicinity of each other; as, the fire alarmed all the neiborhood. [ 1913 Webster] 4. The disposition becoming a neighbor; neighborly kindness or good will. [ Obs.] -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Vicinity; vicinage; proximity. Usage: { Neighborhood}, { Vicinity}. Neighborhood is Anglo- Saxon, and vicinity is Latin. Vicinity does not commonly denote so close a connection as neighborhood. A neighborhood is a more immediately vicinity. The houses immediately adjoining a square are in the neighborhood of that square; those which are somewhat further removed are also in the vicinity of the square. [ 1913 Webster] 77 Moby Thesaurus words for " neighborhood": airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation, area, belt, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines, context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country, department, district, division, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, extent, foreground, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, magnitude, matter, milieu, nearness, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, range, region, salient, section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, three- mile limit, total environment, tune, twelve- mile limit, vicinage, vicinity, zone |
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