vicinity
/vɪˈsɪnɪti
/noun (plural vicinities)
1The area near or surrounding a particular place: the number of people living in the immediate vicinity was small...
- It was a point worth bearing in mind, and so was the way in which the local communities kept the high road cleared of snow in their vicinities.
- The few hospitals still standing in the vicinities were destroyed, from the inside.
- After 1660, vines were planted in Kursk, Tambov, and in the vicinities of Tula and Moscow.
Synonyms
surrounding district, surrounding area, neighbourhood, locality, locale, local area, area, district, region, quarter, sector, territory, domain, place, zone;
environs, surroundings, surrounds, precincts, purlieus
informal this neck of the woods
technical locus
rare vicinage
1.1 [mass noun] archaic Proximity in space or relationship: the abundance and vicinity of country seats
Synonyms
nearness, closeness, proximity, propinquity, adjacency, juxtaposition;
accessibility, handiness
rare contiguity, contiguousness, vicinage
Origin
Mid 16th century (in the sense 'proximity'): from Latin vicinitas, from vicinus 'neighbour'.
Rhymes
- hard launch
- hard lead
- hard line
- hard line money
- hardliner
- hard-lived
- hard-living
- hard luck (or lines)
- hard-luck story
- hardly
- hardly any
- hard lyers
- hardly ever
- hard-lying money
- hardman
- hard maple
- hard measure
- hard metal
- hard-mouthed
- hard-nailed
- hard-necked
- hardness
- hard-nosed
- hard nut
- hard of hearing