vicinity
pronunciation
How to pronounce vicinity in British English:
UK [vəˈsɪnəti]
How to pronounce vicinity in American English:
US [vəˈsɪnəti]
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- Noun:
- a surrounding or nearby region
Word Origin
- vicinity
- vicinity: [16] Latin vīcus meant ‘group of houses, village’ (it is related to the -wich or -wick of English place-names, which originally meant ‘hamlet, town’). From it was derived vīcīnus ‘neighbouring’, which in turn produced vīcīnitās ‘neighbourhood’, source of English vicinity.
- vicinity (n.)
- 1550s, "nearness in place," from Middle French vicinité and directly from Latin vicinitas "of or pertaining to neighbors or a neighborhood," as a noun, "neighborhood, nearness, proximity," from vicinus (adj.) "of the neighborhood, near, neighboring," as a noun "the neighborhood, a neighbor," from vicus "group of houses, village," related to the -wick, -wich in English place names, from PIE *weik- (1) "clan, social unit above the household" (see villa). Meaning "neighborhood, surrounding district" in English is attested by 1796.
Example
- 1. My house is across the harbourin the vicinity of the kowloon park .
- 2. A 6.1-magnitude quake rocked ibaraki and its vicinity .
- 3. Loan officers estimate how many people live in a toilet 's vicinity to calculate the business 's future revenue .
- 4. It will gradually catch up with this slow pulse , reducing the speed of light in the slow pulse 's vicinity .
- 5. At home and abroad , vampire scares usually began when a person died and others in the vicinity began dying , too , usually of the same sickness .