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Noun: vicinity  vi'sinitee
  1. A surrounding or nearby region
    "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"
    - locality, neighborhood [US], neighbourhood [Brit, Cdn], neck of the woods, backyard

Derived forms: vicinities

See also: vicinal

Type of: section

Encyclopedia: Vicinity

Nearest

Vichy water
vichyssoise
Vicia
Vicia cracca
Vicia faba
Vicia orobus
Vicia sativa
Vicia sepium
Vicia villosa
vicinal
vicinity
vicious
vicious circle
vicious cycle
viciously
viciousness
vicissitude
vicissitudinous
Vicksburg
Vicomte de Chateaubriand
Vicomte Ferdinand Marie de Lesseps