in the vicinity

Synonyms

around close near nearly closer neighboring convenient somewhere next door nearby close at hand

Examples

More than thirty other islands in the vicinity of San Juan are for the most part and for the same reason depopulated, and the land laid waste. Bartolomé de las Casas

If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity. Stephen King

It is forbidden to dwell in the vicinity of any of those with an evil tongue, and all the more to sit with them and listen to their words. Maimonides

The elephants were being slaughtered in masses. Some were even killed in the vicinity of big tourist hotels. Richard Leakey

Tom Fleming, the eldest, was said to look like King George V, and indeed, was often mistaken for His Majesty when in the vicinity of Scotland Road, Anfield Road or Lime Street. Why people would suspect that the King might be working in Tate and Lyle's sugar factory is beyond me, but there you are. Tom Baker

WOMAN, n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication. Ambrose Bierce

Words in the phrase

in the vicinity

Close letter words and terms

in the very beginning in the very country in the very nick of time in the vicinity of in the void in the wake