What is another word for in the vicinity?

Pronunciation: [ɪnðə vɪsˈɪnɪti] (IPA)

When it comes to describing a location that is nearby or in the surrounding area, there are several synonyms for the phrase "in the vicinity". Some alternatives to this phrase include "close by", "nearby", "adjacent", "proximate", "neighboring", and "in close proximity". Using these synonyms can help to add variety to your writing and make it more interesting for readers. Additionally, each of these phrases may be better suited for a specific context or tone, so it is important to choose the right synonym for the situation at hand. Whatever the case may be, using different phrases to convey similar meanings is an important skill for any writer to develop.

What are the hypernyms for In the vicinity?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Famous quotes with In the vicinity

  • The Temple of Diana is in the vicinity of the fountain, which has given rise to the conjecture that it originally constituted a portion of the ancient baths.
    Marguerite Gardiner
  • The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels.
    Richard Leakey
  • By the time the United States took possession of the Southwest in 1848, after the Mexican War, the Navajo had become the dominant military force in the area. ...The American soldiers who marched into Santa Fe had no trouble with the Mexicans, but the Navajo stole several head of cattle from the herd of the commanding general himself, not to mention thousands of sheep and horses from settlers in the vicinity.
    Peter Farb
  • The general decay of those manly and spirited exercises, which formerly were practiced in the vicinity of the metropolis has not arisen from any want of inclination in the people, but from the want of places proper for the purpose: such as in times past had been allotted to them are now covered with buildings, or shut up by enclosures, so that, if it were not for skittles, dutch-pins, four-corners, and the like pastimes, they would have no amusements for the exercise of the body; and these amusements are only to be met with in places belonging to common drinking-houses, for which reason their play is seldom productive of much benefit, but more frequently becomes the prelude to drunkenness and debauchery. This evil has been increasing for a long series of years; and honest Stow laments the retrenchments of the grounds appropriated for martial pastimes which had begun to take place in his day.
    Joseph Strutt
  • Mrs. Burgoyne passed the last twenty years of her life in a large, solemn-looking house at Kensington ; it is now a mad-house. How curiously do these changes in dwelling places, once cheerful and familiar, bring the mutability of our existence home ! It would be an eventful chronicle, the history of even a few of the old-fashioned houses in the vicinity of London. You ascended a flight of steps, with a balustrade and two indescribable birds on either side, and a large hall, which, strange to say, was more cheerful in winter than in summer. In summer the narrow windows, the black wood with which it was panelled, seemed heavy and dull ; but in winter the huge fire gave its own gladness, and had besides the association with old English hospitality which a blazing grate always brings. You passed next through two long drawing-rooms, whose white wainscoting was almost covered with family portraits. There cannot be much said for the taste of Queen Anne's time downwards — bagged, wigged, and hooped ; there was not a picture of which the African's question might not have been asked, "Pray tell me, white woman, if this is all you?”
    Letitia Elizabeth Landon

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