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View synonyms for vicinage

vicinage

[ vis-uh-nij ]

noun

  1. the region near or about a place; vicinity.
  2. a particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.


vicinage

/ ˈvɪsənɪdʒ /

noun

  1. the residents of a particular neighbourhood
  2. a less common word for vicinity
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of vicinage1

1275–1325; < Latin vīcīn ( us ) near ( vicinity ) + -age; replacing Middle English vesinage < Middle French < Latin, as above
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Word History and Origins

Origin of vicinage1

C14: from Old French vicenage, from vicin neighbouring, from Latin vīcīnus; see vicinity
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Example Sentences

After many days of wolfish travel he saw signs of the vicinage of the Shoshone Indians.

The conception of a pomoerium as a "vicinage attached to" a city, appears to be something quite novel and original.

I should have supposed it meant a narrower locality and would apply to a city or town—a vicinage.

That the whipper-snappers of the vicinage should indulge their propensities comes as the order of their nature.

Our law provided but a precarious and uncomfortable niche for them under the rubric common pur cause de vicinage.

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