vicinitynoun [ S ]
uk/vɪˈsɪn.ə.ti/us/vəˈsɪn.ə.t̬i/C2 the area around a place or where the speaker is :
There are several hotels in the immediate vicinity of the station.
We could see that there were several open Wi-Fi networks in the vicinity.
Anyone who happened to be in the vicinity could have been injured or killed.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Towns & regions: environments & localities
- arrondissement
- backyard
- belt
- environment
- environs
- field
- hood
- in your backyard idiom
- locality
- localize
- locally
- manor
- milieu
- neck
- neighbourhood
- pitch
- quarter
- surroundings
- this, our, etc. neck of the woods idiom
- turf
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Idiom(s)
in the vicinity of