Vicinity
[vɪ'sɪnɪtɪ] or [və'sɪnəti]
Definition
(noun.) a surrounding or nearby region; 'the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville'; 'it is a rugged locality'; 'he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood'; 'I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods'.
Typist: Sean--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being near, or not remote; nearness; propinquity; proximity; as, the value of the estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.
(n.) That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood.
Checker: Lucy
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Nearness, proximity.[2]. Neighborhood, vicinage.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Juxtaposition, neighborhood, nearness, proximity
ANT:Distance, remoteness, separation, removal
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Examples
- So near a vicinity to her mother and Meryton relations was not desirable even to _his_ easy temper, or _her_ affectionate heart. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- The crowd had gradually dispersed in their immediate vicinity, and they were nearly alone. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- A modern steamer, with a noisy screw beating the waters, is enough to scare away all the nymphs in the vicinity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- There were quite a number of remnants of tribes in the vicinity of Portland in Oregon, and of Fort Vancouver in Washington Territory. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- It would be to any one who did not know these waters; but Martin has been here with me often before, and knows every rock in the vicinity. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- In case of a crevasse in this vicinity, the water escaping would find its outlet through the same channels. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- On the 24th he joined us on the march from North Anna to Cold Harbor, in the vicinity of Chesterfield. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- This luxury his footman procured, together with a tankard of ale from a pothouse in the immediate vicinity of the theatre. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Four old Michigan Central cars with rotten sills collapsed in the ditch and went all to pieces, distributing figs, raisins, dates, and candies all over the track and the vicinity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- We had lived so long in the vicinity of Eton, that its population of young folks was well known to us. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- Thus I made the journey to the vicinity of the plaza without detection. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- The remainder of the army immediately returned to the vicinity of Burkesville. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Coarse grass and rank weeds straggled over all the marshy land in the vicinity. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- The dangerous character of this and other rocks in this vicinity gave long ago to this channel the significant name of Hell Gate. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- This pursuit brought him up to the vicinity of Allatoona. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
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