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vicinity 音标拼音: [vəs'ɪnəti] [vɪs'ɪnɪti] n. 接近,邻近,附近地区,近处 接近,邻近,附近地区,近处 vicinity n 1: a surrounding or nearby region; " the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; " it is a rugged locality"; " he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; " I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" [ synonym: { vicinity}, { locality}, { neighborhood}, { neighbourhood}, { neck of the woods}] Vicinity \ Vi* cin" i* ty\ ( v[ i^]* s[ i^] n"[ i^]* t[ y^]; 277), n. [ L. vicinitas, from vicinus neighboring, near, from vicus a row of houses, a village; akin to Gr. o' i^ kos a house, Skr. v[= e][, c] a a house, vi[, c] to enter, Goth. weihs town: cf. OF. vicinit[' e]. Cf. { Diocese}, { Economy}, { Parish}, { Vicinage}, { Wick} a village.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] A vicinity of disposition and relative tempers. -- Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Syn: Neighborhood; vicinage. See { Neighborhood}. [ 1913 Webster] 79 Moby Thesaurus words for " vicinity": airspace, alentours, ambience, ambit, approach, approximation, area, belt, borderlands, circle, circuit, circumambiencies, circumjacencies, circumstances, closeness, compass, confines, context, continental shelf, convergence, corridor, country, department, district, division, entourage, environing circumstances, environment, environs, extent, foreground, gestalt, ground, habitat, heartland, hinterland, immediacy, immediate foreground, land, locale, locality, magnitude, matter, milieu, nearness, neighborhood, nighness, offshore rights, outposts, outskirts, part, parts, perimeter, periphery, place, precinct, precincts, premises, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, range, region, salient, section, situation, soil, space, suburbs, surroundings, terrain, territory, three- mile limit, total environment, tune, twelve- mile limit, vicinage, zone
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