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vicinage
noun as in district
Strongest matches
Weak matches
noun as in locality
noun as in nearness
noun as in neck of the woods
noun as in neighborhood
noun as in vicinity
Example Sentences
District Court for New Jersey, Trenton Vicinage, comes three weeks after ADF attorneys sued Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson on behalf of a chain of pro-life clinics to block his investigation into their business practices.
“And this is Jane Eyre? Are you coming from Millcote, and on foot? Yes—just one of your tricks: not to send for a carriage, and come clattering over street and road like a common mortal, but to steal into the vicinage of your home along with twilight, just as if you were a dream or a shade. What the deuce have you done with yourself this last month?”
It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage.
Police say the man made his way up the Antrim Road towards Vicinage Park before he was picked up in a silver-coloured car.
That a whole vicinage, when it had timely notice, should bind itself in a league to defeat the purpose of the inquisitors, as at Castelnaudary, must have been a frequent experience; that, sooner or later, despair should bring about a catastrophe like that of Avignonet was inevitable.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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