单词 | neighborhood |
释义 | neighborhood /nay"beuhr hood'/, n. 1. the area or region around or near some place or thing; vicinity: the kids of the neighborhood; located in the neighborhood of Jackson and Vine streets. 2. a district or locality, often with reference to its character or inhabitants: a fashionable neighborhood; to move to a nicer neighborhood. 3. a number of persons living near one another or in a particular locality: The whole neighborhood was there. 4. neighborly feeling or conduct. 5. nearness; proximity: to sense the neighborhood of trouble. 6. Math. an open set that contains a given point. 7. in the neighborhood of, approximately; nearly; about: She looks to be in the neighborhood of 70. [1400-50; late ME neighborehode. See NEIGHBOR, -HOOD] Syn. 2. community, area, locale, vicinity. |
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