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
Antiquities trafficking is ongoing, but to a lesser degree thanks to strict security measures at historical sites and their vicinities.
From US News ● Apr. 5, 2016
I see no plums in the vicinities of Brignoles; which makes me conjecture that the celebrated plum of that name is not derived from this place.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 2 by Thomas Jefferson Randolph
