township

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈtaʊnʃɪp/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. The territory of a town.
    — The train is usually crowded and half the township of Forres seems to turn out to watch it go off.
  2. A subdivision of a county. Canada,US
  3. An area set aside for nonwhite occupation. South-Africa
    — In addition, the council has completed the planning of a new Coloured township on the site of the existing African township.
  4. A nonwhite (usually subeconomic) area attached to a city. South-Africa
    — Growing up in the township of Zwide, just outside Port Elizabeth, bed for Kolisi was a pile of cushions on the living-room floor and finding enough to eat was a daily struggle. […] So, the man from the townships can certainly empathize with the pain lockdown is inflicting on the less fortunate in his country.
  5. A small town. Australia,New-Zealand

词形变化

townships plural

词汇关系

衍生词
Bristol Township Eastern Townships Laugharne Township paper township township music townshipwide
相关词
squatter camp

词源

From Middle English towneship, townschip, tounshipe, tunscipe, from Old English tūnsċipe (“the inhabitants of a town; township”), equivalent to town + -ship.
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