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UK
/vɪsˈɪnɪti/
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[ US /vəˈsɪnəti, vɪˈsɪnɪti/ ]
[ US /vəˈsɪnəti, vɪˈsɪnɪti/ ]
NOUN
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a surrounding or nearby region
it is a rugged locality
the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville
I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods
he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood
How To Use vicinity In A Sentence
- In 1672, when Mars was in the vicinity of the three Psi stars of Aquarius, the time was ripe for obtaining the first reliable parallax of Mars.
- I may be somewhat easy, but I am not without a modicum of self respect. watch me as I choose to sleep with an uneducated redneck over you, simply on the grounds that he's too much of a gentleman to say such things in my general vicinity. that in itself makes the 30-minute drive a non-issue. your pool table and your parents 'money do nothing for me the way his shitty crack shack does. silly little fuckwit. speaking of fuckwits, isn't it funny how WRITING the word fuckwit is so much more funny than SAYING it? go on! say it! isn't it weird and retarded? ps: the funk is gone. Dragonwench Diary Entry
- There may be a chill in the air this winter, but if you're in the vicinity of the Royal Theatre in Castlebar chances are it will come from the Ice Ballet.
- The problem becomes more complicated when any untoward incident takes place in the Srinagar city or its vicinity.
- Every buyer, lessee and mortgagee of property in or in the vicinity of a coalmining area should search before exchanging contracts.
- Only a handful had returned to work in the immediate vicinity.
- One becomes suspicious of every person in the vicinity while providing security to VVIPs.
- Ash could accumulate on rooftops, causing them to collapse on people seeking shelter in the vicinity of the volcano.
- So there's this Wahhabi sect, very hard liners, I say, and then you have the House of Saud, which is essentially a nomad tribe from the Riyadh vicinity or Najd. NPR Topics: News
- In France the alcoholic cordial crème de cassis, made in the vicinity of Dijon in Burgundy from locally grown blackcurrants, won worldwide fame.