confines
noun
1 confines
A bounded scope.
Roget 197:
nearness
etc.
adj.;
proximity,
propinquity;
vicinity,
vicinage;
neighborhood,
adjacency;
contiguity
etc.
199.
short distance,
short step,
short cut;
earshot,
close quarters,
stone's throw;
bow shot,
gun shot,
pistol shot;
hair's breadth,
span.
purlieus,
neighborhood,
vicinage,
environs,
alentours [Fr.],
suburbs,
confines,
banlieue†,
borderland;
whereabouts.
bystander;
neighbor,
borderer†.
approach
etc.
286;
convergence
etc.
290;
perihelion.
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