vicinity
noun
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Howdy, neighbor! Today we cozy up to vicinity, a word with neighborly origins that was welcomed into English as a French import in the 16th century from Middle French vicinité. It comes ultimately from Latin vicus, meaning "row of houses" or "village," by way of Latin vicinus, meaning "neighboring." Other descendants of vicinus in English include vicinal (a synonym of local) and vicinage, a synonym of vicinity in the sense of "a neighboring or surrounding district." Both of these are formal and rare, but vicinage is notable for giving title to the Vicinage Clause, a segment of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution that entitles an accused person to "an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law."
Examples of vicinity in a Sentence
Jaime Catmull, Forbes.com, 20 May 2025
Residents who live in the vicinity described the encampment as a drive-through for drugs, KNBC reported, adding that neighbors have contacted the city a number of times about it but to no avail.
—David Chiu, People.com, 16 May 2025
This unit — which secretly names itself Murderbot — initially plans to kill all humans in the vicinity and flee to freedom.
—Noel Murray, New York Times, 1 May 2025
And Verrone notes that, even if the low for this phase is in, some 80% of all serious pullbacks eventually revisit the vicinity of the low to retest it.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Apr. 2025
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“Vicinity.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/vicinity. Accessed 25 May. 2025.
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