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noun
- 1. the area near or surrounding a particular place: "the number of people living in the immediate vicinity was small" Similar
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VICINITY definition: 1. the area around a place or where the speaker is : 2. the area around a place or where the…. Learn more.
The meaning of VICINITY is a surrounding area or district : neighborhood. How to use vicinity in a sentence. Did you know?
If something is in your vicinity, it's in the surrounding area or nearby region — it's in the neighborhood, so to speak. If there's a garbage dump in your vicinity, you'll certainly smell it.
Definition of vicinity noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
Vicinity definition: the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood. See examples of VICINITY used in a sentence.
noun Word forms: plural -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.
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. SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases.
VICINITY definition: in the area near a place: . Learn more.
Vicinity definition: The state of being near in space or relationship; proximity.
1. The state of being near in space or relationship; proximity: two restaurants in close vicinity. 2. A nearby, surrounding, or adjoining region; a neighborhood. 3. An approximate degree or amount: houses priced in the vicinity of $200,000. [Latin vīcīnitās, from vīcīnus, neighboring, from vīcus, neighborhood; see weik- in Indo-European roots .]
