a house/apartment/room etc overlooking (-which overlooks) an 8th-floor flat
overlooking Hyde Park
e window?
view /vju:/ [n С] the whole area that you see when you look out of a window, especially when this area is very large or beautifuclass="underline" She stood on the balcony admiring the view.
+ of a spectacular view of San
Francisco Bay
houses/where people nvrcontinues on the next page —i—
HOUSES/WHERE PEOPLE LIVE 368
HOUSES/WHERE PEOPLE LIVE
What sort of area is it in?
area ftdria/ [n Cj a particular part of a town or city: My apartment 's very small but 1 love the area. I a middle-class area I a residential area (=where there are houses, but no offices or factories)
(housing) estate /('hauziq) rsteit/ [n C]
British an area where there are a lot of houses or apartments which are very similar and were all built at the same time: Conor was brought up on a big housing estate in Belfast. 1 There's a lot of crime on our estate.
(housing) project /('hauzig) ,prod3ekt||
-pro:-/ [n C] american a group of houses or apartments for poor families, usually built with money from the government: There are plans for a new housing project on the east side of town. I kids from the projects
neighbourhood British neighborhood american /'neibaTiud/ [n C] a small area of a town or city where people live: a nice neighborhood of Boston in the neighbourhood There's only one park in the whole neighbourhood.
part of town /pa:rt av taun/ |n С usually singuiarl an area of a town or city: What part of town do you live in?
suburb /'8лЬз:гЬ/ [n C] an area outside the centre of a city, where many people live
the suburbs I was brought up in the suburbs.
+ of a quiet suburb of Los Angeles
О where sb lives /we3r (sb) 'livz/
SPOKEN use this when you are describing the area where someone lives: Where I livet there's nowhere for kids to play. I It's really nice where Sonia lives.
see also town, area
Is it in the town or the country?
Ш
go to town, countryside
How big is it?
one-bedroomed/two-bed- roomed etc /(one, etc) bedru:md/ [adj
only before noun] a one-bed roomed, two-bedroomed etc house or apartment has one bedroom, two bedrooms etc: a one-bedroomed apartment I a three-bedroomed house
overcrowded /,3uv3pkraudJd«V [adj\ an
overcrowded house has too many people in it, and is unpleasant and uncomfortable to live in: Many of these families are living in substandard or overcrowded housing.
poky /'paoki/ [adj] а poky house or
room is very small, and there is not enough room to move around in: a poky little cottage
spacious /'speijas/ [adj] a spacious
house or room has plenty of space, so it is comfortable and pleasant to live in: a spacious, comfortably furnished flat
three-Store у/four-Store у etc British three-story/jfour-story etCAMEracAN
/(three, etc) stoni/ [adj only before nounl a three-storey» four-storey etc house or
building has three levels, four levels etc: a five-story apartment block
How long have you lived there?
for /for; strong ft:r/ [preposition] use this to say how long you have lived somewhere: My parents have lived in the same house for almost 30 years.
since /sins/ (preposition/conjunction] if you have lived somewhere since a time or event, you started to live there at that time and you are still living there now: They've lived here since they got mar ried.
since 1980/tke summer etc We've been living in the flat since last Christmas.
( fan in И<ш1ниу /к й ttnkd apartment яг tkt Mwdfj&or ф &ytf
oM kiU'y tkt ом-hols a hsy strut, Tie a/xrtmt k mffm/
cilfd
ю
(tile, the arta. /tea (ietfyporto^toa*
hungry continued from page 365
Starve /staarv; ju I) to have so little food to eat that you become ill or die: I have a family to take care of - I can't let them starve.
starve to death (=die because of lack of food) Thousands of deer starve to death every winter. starvation /sta^'veipn/ [n U] when you
become ill or die because you do not have enough to eat: The c/imbers were close to starvation when they were rescued. I Thousands of people could die of cold and starvation this winter
malnutrition /(mslnju'tnpn||-no-/ [n U] a serious health problem caused by not eating enough healthy food for a long time, which makes your body weak: Many children from poor families were suffering from malnutrition. I Disease and malnutrition are widespread in the shanty towns.
famine ffxmp/ [n C/U] when many people in a place are very hungry and some of them die, especially because the food they planted did not grow: War and famine caused thousands of deaths in Africa last year. 1 During the Great Famine, millions of Irish people emigrated to the
369
HURRY
US.
HURRY
see also *ast, slow, run
D to go somewhere or do something as quickly as you can
hurry/'hAriU'hxri/ [f I] to go somewhere or do something quickly, especially because you do not have much time: The movie begins in ten minutes - we'll have to hurry. I There's no need to hurry - we still have an hour to spare. + across/atong/away/down etc Dieter was hurrying along the platform to catch his train. I The children hurried away when they saw me coming, hurry to do sth Anna was hurrying to finish her essay before lunchtime.
hurrying - hurried - have hurried
370
HURRY
in a hurry /'in э hArifl-'iniri/ if you do something in a hurry, you do it very quickly because you do not have much time, so you often make mistakes or forget things: Bob left the house in a hurry,
and forgot his keys.