• vuh-SIN-uh-tee • noun
1 : the quality or state of being near : proximity
2 : a surrounding area or district : neighborhood
3 : an approximate amount, extent, or degree
[Ro] împrejurimi, preajmă [fig.], vecinătate, apropiere [fig.]
Example sentence:
There are several wonderful stores in the vicinity of our new house.
În vecinătatea casei noastre se află câteva magazine minunate.
Vicinity has its origins in the idea of neighborliness - it was borrowed into English in the 16th century from Middle French vicinité, which in turn derives from the Latin adjective vicinus, meaning neighboring. Vicinus itself can be traced back to the noun vicus, meaning row of houses or village, and all the way back to the same ancient word that gave Gothic, Old Church Slavic, and Greek words for house. Other descendants of vicinus in English include vicinal and vicinage, a synonym of vicinity in the sense of a neighboring or surrounding district.
