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Another word for vicinity

Noun

  1. A surrounding area

    2. See also:

    place

    near

  2. A surrounding site

    3. See also:

    place

    near

  3. Approximate size or amount

    4. See also:

    near

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Another word for vicinity

Noun
    2. See also:

    region

    environment

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • In the vicinity are several fine mansions.

  • Dean hadn't been in the vicinity of Shipton's fall.

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

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

  • 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.

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