'Vicinity' definitions:
Definition of 'vicinity'
From: WordNet
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" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
Definition of 'Vicinity'
From: GCIDE
- Vicinity \Vi*cin"i*ty\ (v[i^]*s[i^]n"[i^]*t[y^]; 277), n. [L. vicinitas, from vicinus neighboring, near, from vicus a row of houses, a village; akin to Gr. o'i^kos a house, Skr. v[=e][,c]a a house, vi[,c] to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf. OF. vicinit['e]. Cf. Diocese, Economy, Parish, Vicinage, Wick a village.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- A vicinity of disposition and relative tempers. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is near, or not remote; that which is adjacent to anything; adjoining space or country; neighborhood. "The vicinity of the sun." --Bentley. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Neighborhood; vicinage. See Neighborhood. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vicinity'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- airspace,
- alentours,
- ambience,
- ambit,
- approach,
- approximation,
- area,
- belt,
- borderlands,
- circle,
- circuit,
- circumambiencies,
- circumjacencies,
- circumstances,
- closeness,
- compass,
- confines,
- context,
- continental shelf,
- convergence,
- corridor,
- country,
- department,
- district,
- division,
- entourage,
- environing circumstances,
- environment,
- environs,
- extent,
- foreground,
- gestalt,
- ground,
- habitat,
- heartland,
- hinterland,
- immediacy,
- immediate foreground,
- land,
- locale,
- locality,
- magnitude,
- matter,
- milieu,
- nearness,
- neighborhood,
- nighness,
- offshore rights,
- outposts,
- outskirts,
- part,
- parts,
- perimeter,
- periphery,
- place,
- precinct,
- precincts,
- premises,
- propinquity,
- proximity,
- purlieus,
- quarter,
- range,
- region,
- salient,
- section,
- situation,
- soil,
- space,
- suburbs,
- surroundings,
- terrain,
- territory,
- three-mile limit,
- total environment,
- tune,
- twelve-mile limit,
- vicinage,
- zone