vicinity

[vi-sin-i-tee]

noun

plural

vicinities 

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.

vicinity

/ vɪˈsɪnɪtɪ /

noun

1. a surrounding, adjacent, or nearby area; neighbourhood

2. the fact or condition of being close in space or relationship

Word History and Origins

Origin of vicinity¹

1550–60; < Latin vīcīnitās, equivalent to vīcīn ( us ) near ( vīc ( us ) wick ³, neighborhood + -īnus -ine ¹ ) + -itās -ity

Word History and Origins

Origin of vicinity¹

C16: from Latin vīcīnitās, from vīcīnus neighbouring, from vīcus village

Example Sentences

“If someone got murdered in my vicinity and they picked this book up, they’d probably just put me in jail,” he says, “just in case.”

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Any outdoor Ring cameras in the vicinity that spot your dog will alert those camera owners.

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His playing partner Shane Lowry then drained a hole-winning eagle putt and wildly celebrated, animatedly pointing and shouting an expletive in the vicinity of where the original abuse had come from.

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Attendee Lien Nguyen, whose love for the kittens overrode her cat allergy, admitted she’d drop her book the second a cat came into her vicinity.

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Such areas include BLM-managed lands in the vicinity of the White Sands Missile Range in southern New Mexico, as well as the Yuma Proving Grounds in Arizona, she said.

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Related Words

• environs 
• neighborhood 
• proximity