vicinity
noun
the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood.
vicinities
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pluralof vicinity.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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The team also prepared training sessions and webinars available to schools to help them identify potential hazards in their vicinities and structural weaknesses in their buildings.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 31, 2021
The answer was that all of Lion Air’s accidents happened during takeoffs and landings and therefore at relatively low speed, either on runways or in their immediate obstacle-free vicinities.
From New York Times ● Sep. 18, 2019
The community is virtually invisible, with most people working in meat-producing factories in the vicinities while those in town keep an extremely low profile.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 7, 2018
Dr Schlegel may thus have found a mechanism by which black holes can switch off star formation in their vicinities.
From Economist ● Jan. 7, 2016
In the meantime, the Polybius comes in a box containing books for Peter Carr, and for some of my friends in Williamsburg and its vicinities.
From The Writings of Thomas Jefferson Library Edition - Vol. 6 (of 20) by Thomas Jefferson
