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How to pronounce vicinity in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood
Type of section
Has types gold coast, 'hood, place, proximity, scenery
Derivation vicinal


the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville.

Examples of vicinity

vicinity
Sodium is a telltale sign of cool, neutral gas in the vicinity of the explosion.
From the sciencedaily.com
Other parking vendors in the vicinity of Ford Field may charge different prices.
From the freep.com
Not quite to the extent the Bucs have been, maybe, but in that general vicinity.
From the washingtontimes.com
If no additional burglaries occur in the vicinity, the attractiveness decreases.
From the sciencedaily.com
His family and neighbours in the vicinity were also put at risk of serious harm.
From the express.co.uk
I well remember the diesel generators in the vicinity of the Wasdale Head Hotel.
From the guardian.co.uk
Most of the country's oil wells are situated in the vicinity of Jabal ad Dukhan.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Clearly, solar collectors could only have an effect in their immediate vicinity.
From the newscientist.com
The stone was formerly on in the vicinity of a chapel just north of the village.
From the en.wikipedia.org
More examples
  • 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"
  • MapBlast! was a web mapping service launched in the mid 1990s by Vicinity Corporation. It allowed website owners to incorporate maps in their own web pages, and was later syndicated across most major Web, wireless, handheld and interactive TV platforms including Yahoo! ...
  • Proximity, or the state of being near; neighbourhood, or the nearby region; approximate size or amount
  • The area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood: There are no stores in the vicinity of our house.
  • Contactless technology operating at a distance of approximately 50 cm. See Proximity, Reading Distance.