vicinity
noun
1 vicinity
A surrounding or nearby region:
— The plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville.
synonyms: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood.
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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Roget 227:
circumjacence†,
circumambience†;
environment,
encompassment;
atmosphere,
medium,
surroundings.
outpost;
border
etc.
(edge)
231;
girdle
etc.
(circumference)
230;
outskirts,
boulebards,
suburbs,
purlieus,
precincts,
faubourgs†,
environs,
entourage,
banlieue†;
neighborhood,
vicinage,
vicinity.
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Dutch: wijk, buurt, contreie, contreien, kader, milieu, nabijheid, omgeving, omstreek, omstreken, omtrek ... show more
Polish: okolica, pobliże, sąsiedztwo
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 ... show more.
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