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1 neighbourhood
1) (a district or area, especially in a town or city: a poor neighbourhood.) soseska2) (a district or area surrounding a particular place: He lives somewhere in the neighbourhood of the station.) okolica -
2 neighbourhood watch
(American neighborhood watch; also sentry watch) noun (a system allowing organized groups of people to police their neighbourhoods to prevent crime.) organizirana straža v soseščini -
3 tough
1. adjective1) (strong; not easily broken, worn out etc: Plastic is a tough material.) trd2) ((of food etc) difficult to chew.) žilav3) ((of people) strong; able to bear hardship, illness etc: She must be tough to have survived such a serious illness.) močen4) (rough and violent: It's a tough neighbourhood.) divji5) (difficult to deal with or overcome: a tough problem; The competition was really tough.) hud2. noun(a rough, violent person; a bully.) robavs- toughen
- tough luck
- get tough with someone
- get tough with* * *[tʌf]1.adjective ( toughly adverb)žilav, trd, čvrst; močan, robusten, krepak; zdržljiv, vztrajen, nepopustljiv, energičen; zakrknjen, trmast; lepljiv; neugoden, težak, težaven; razvpit; grób, osoren, zadirčenadjective tough customer — človek, ki ga je težko ugnatiadjective tough job — trdo, Btežko delotough luck figuratively smolaadjective tough neighbourhood — razvpita soseščinaadjective tough offender — zakrknjen prestopnikadjective tough will — žilava, železna voljait is not so tough — ni tako stabo;2.noundrznež, silak, robavs, neotesanec; hudoben (malopriden) človek; kriminalec, apaš; pridanič -
4 neighbour
['neibə](a person who lives near oneself: my next-door neighbour.) sosed- neighbourhood watch
- neighbouring
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5 attract
[ə'trækt]1) (to cause (someone or something) to come towards: A magnet attracts iron; I tried to attract her attention.) privlačiti; pritegniti2) (to arouse (someone's) liking or interest: She attracted all the young men in the neighbourhood.) privlačiti•- attractive
- attractively
- attractiveness* * *[ətraekt]transitive verbprivleči; figuratively privabiti, mikati, očarati -
6 matron
['meitrən]1) (a senior nurse in charge of a hospital.) upraviteljica2) (a dignified married woman: Her behaviour shocked all the middle-class matrons in the neighbourhood.) matrona•- matronly* * *[méitrən]nounmatrona, dostojanstvena gospa; upraviteljica (zavoda, bolnice, zapora) -
7 residential
[-'denʃəl]1) ((of an area of a town etc) containing houses rather than offices, shops etc: This district is mainly residential; a residential neighbourhood/area.) stanovanjski2) (requiring a person to live in the place where he works: a residential post.) (služba) za katero je potrebno bivališče v istem kraju3) (of, concerned with, living in a place.) stanovanjski* * *[rezidénšəl]adverb ( residentially adverb)stanovanjski; primeren, pripraven za zasebne hiše, zaseden z zasebnimi hišamiresidential club — klub, v katerem imajo člani stanovanje in oskrboresidential quarter (area, district) — stanovanjska četrt (z vilami itd.) -
8 sordid
['so:did]1) ((of a place etc) dirty, mean and poor: a very sordid neighbourhood.) umazan2) ((of a person's behaviour etc) showing low standards or ideals etc; not very pleasant or admirable: The whole affair was rather sordid.) beden•- sordidly- sordidness* * *[sɔ:did]adjective ( sordidly adverb)umazan, nečist, nesnažen; skopuški, sebičen; figuratively podel, nizkoten; bedensordid poverty — strašna, obupna revščina -
9 vicinity
[vi'sinəti](a neighbourhood or local area: Are there any cinemas in the/this vicinity?) bližnja okolica* * *[visíniti]nounbližina (to čemu); sosedstvo, soseščina; (bližnja) okolicain my vicinity — v moji bližini, blizu mene
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