释义 |
Noun: neighborhood 'neybur`hûd Usage: US (=neighbourhood)
- A surrounding or nearby region
"he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood" - vicinity, locality, neighbourhood [Brit, Cdn], neck of the woods, vicinage [N. Amer], backyard - People living near one another
"it is a friendly neighborhood"; "my neighborhood voted for Bush" - neighbourhood [Brit, Cdn] - The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in 'in the region of')
"the price is in the neighborhood of $100" - region, neighbourhood [Brit, Cdn] - An area within a city or town that has some distinctive features (especially one forming a community)
"an ethnic neighborhood" - neighbourhood [Brit, Cdn]
Derived forms: neighborhoods See also: neighbor [US] Type of: area, community, country, indefinite quantity, section Encyclopedia: Neighborhood |