vicinity

[ vi-sin-i-tee ]

noun

, plural vi·cin·i·ties.

1. the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood:

   There are no stores in the vicinity of our house.

2. state or fact of being near; proximity; propinquity:

   He was troubled by the vicinity of the nuclear testing area.

vicinity

/ vɪˈsɪnɪtɪ /

noun

1. a surrounding, adjacent, or nearby area; neighbourhood
2. the fact or condition of being close in space or relationship

Word History and Origins

Origin of vicinity¹

1550–60; < Latin vīcīnitās, equivalent to vīcīn ( us ) near ( vīc ( us ) wick ³, neighborhood + -īnus -ine ¹ ) + -itās -ity

Word History and Origins

Origin of vicinity¹

C16: from Latin vīcīnitās, from vīcīnus neighbouring, from vīcus village

Example Sentences

A touch screen in our cabin displays all the staffed and autonomous vehicles and other equipment in the vicinity, along with "permission lines" that show the immediate routes the self-driving trucks are intending to take.

From BBC

The strikes also targeted Ain Bourday and Douris, including diesel tanks in its vicinity, it said.

From BBC

Dr Tedros later confirmed that a WHO team had reached the hospital on Thursday night “amid hostilities in the vicinity”, and transferred 23 patients and 26 caregivers to al-Shifa hospital in Gaza City.

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“We had to stay overnight at Kamal Adwan. There was intense bombardment in the vicinity of the hospital. What these patients go through every night,” he said.

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The director of the Indonesian hospital, one of the last functioning hospitals near Jabalia, told BBC Arabic’s Gaza Today programme that Israeli troops were stationed outside its gates and that there was constant gunfire in the vicinity.

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Related Words

• environs
• neighborhood
• proximity