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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Vicinity \Vi*cin"i*ty\ (?; 277), n. [L. vicinitas from vicinus
neighboring, near from vicus a row of houses, a village;
akin to Gr ? a house, Skr. v??a a house, vi? to enter Goth.
weihs town: cf OF vicinit['e]. Cf {Diocese}, {Economy},
{Parish}, {Vicinage}, {Wick} a village.]
1. The quality or state of being near or not remote;
nearness; propinquity; proximity; as the value of the
estate was increased by the vicinity of two country seats.
A vicinity of disposition and relative tempers.
--Jer. Taylor.
2. That which is near or not remote; that which is adjacent
to anything adjoining space or country; neighborhood.
``The vicinity of the sun.'' --Bentley.
Syn: Neighborhood; vicinage. See {Neighborhood}.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
vicinity
n : a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the
vicinty of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he
always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
[syn: {locality}, {neighborhood}, {neighbourhood}]
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