Vicinity Synonyms and Antonyms

vĭ-sĭnĭ-tē
A surrounding area
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. environment
  2. environs
  3. locale
  4. locality
  5. neighborhood
  6. precinct
  7. surroundings
Antonyms:
  1. faraway
A surrounding site
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. neighborhood
  2. locality
  3. area
  4. proximity
  5. nearness
  6. region
  7. environs
  8. ballpark
  9. close
  10. district
  11. nearby
  12. propinquity
  13. surroundings
  14. neighbourhood
  15. vicinage
  16. neck of the woods
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Approximate size or amount
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. range
  2. neighborhood

Words Related to Vicinity

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. near
  2. place
  3. vacinity

Vicinity Sentence Examples

  • In the vicinity are several fine mansions.

  • When a Bob-White quail continued calling from the vicinity of the pond, she headed that way.

  • Norfolk is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishopric. The city has a public park of 110 acres and various smaller ones, and in the vicinity are several summer resorts, notably Virginia Beach, Ocean View, Old Point Comfort, Pine Beach and Willoughby Beach.

  • There are undrained, swampy districts in Campeche, in the vicinity of the Terminos Lagoon, where malarial diseases are prevalent, and the same conditions prevail along the coast where mangrove swamps are found.

  • Coal deposits exist in the immediate vicinity of the town.

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