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vi·cin·i·ty

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–noun, plural -ties.

1.	the area or region near or about a place; surrounding district; neighborhood: There are no stores in the vicinity of our house.

2.	state or fact of being near; proximity; propinquity: He was troubled by the vicinity of the nuclear testing area.

[Origin: 1550–60; < L vīcīnitās, equiv. to vīcīn(us) near (vīc(us) wick³, neighborhood + -īnus -ine¹) + -itās -ity

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vi·cin·i·ty Audio Help (vĭ-sĭn'ĭ-tē) Pronunciation Key
n. pl. vi·cin·i·ties

The state of being near in space or relationship; proximity: two restaurants in close vicinity.
A nearby, surrounding, or adjoining region; a neighborhood.
An approximate degree or amount: houses priced in the vicinity of $200,000.

[Latin vīcīnitās, from vīcīnus, neighboring, from vīcus, neighborhood; see weik-¹ in Indo-European roots.]

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vicinity

1560, "nearness in place," from L. vicinitas "of or pertaining to neighbors or a neighborhood," from vicinus "neighbor, neighboring," from vicus "group of houses, village," related to the -wick, -wich in Eng. place names, from PIE *weik- (see villa). Meaning "surrounding district" is first attested 1796.

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vicinity
noun
a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"

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vicinity [viˈsinəti] noun

a neighbourhood or local area
Example: Are there any cinemas in the/this vicinity?

Arabic:	جِوار، منطِقَه مُجاوِرَه
Chinese (Simplified):	邻近
Chinese (Traditional):	鄰近
Czech:	okolí
Danish:	nærhed
Dutch:	buurt
Estonian:	naabrus
Finnish:	lähiympäristö
French:	voisinage
German:	die Nachbarschaft, die Umgebung
Greek:	γειτονιά, περιοχή
Hungarian:	szomszédság
Icelandic:	nágrenni
Indonesian:	lingkungan
Italian:	vicinato

Japanese:	近所
Korean:	근처, 부근
Latvian:	apkārtne; apkaime
Lithuanian:	kaimynystė, artuma
Norwegian:	nabolag, nærhet, omegn
Polish:	okolica
Portuguese (Brazil):	vizinhança
Portuguese (Portugal):	vizinhança
Romanian:	vecinătate
Russian:	окрестность
Slovak:	okolie
Slovenian:	bližnja okolica
Spanish:	vecindad, proximidad, inmediaciones
Swedish:	närhet, grannskap, omgivning
Turkish:	civar, çevre

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Vicinity

E*con"o*my\, n.; pl. Economies. [F. ['e]conomie, L. oeconomia household management, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? one managing a household; ? house (akin to L. vicus village, E. vicinity) + ? usage, law, rule, fr. ne`mein to distribute, manage. See Vicinity, Nomad.]

1. The management of domestic affairs; the regulation and government of household matters; especially as they concern expense or disbursement; as, a careful economy.

Himself busy in charge of the household economies. --Froude.

2. Orderly arrangement and management of the internal affairs of a state or of any establishment kept up by production and consumption; esp., such management as directly concerns wealth; as, political economy.

3. The system of rules and regulations by which anything is managed; orderly system of regulating the distribution and uses of parts, conceived as the result of wise and economical adaptation in the author, whether human or divine; as, the animal or vegetable economy; the economy of a poem; the Jewish economy.

The position which they [the verb and adjective] hold in the general economy of language. --Earle.

In the Greek poets, as also in Plautus, we shall see the economy . . . of poems better observed than in Terence. --B. Jonson.

The Jews already had a Sabbath, which, as citizens and subjects of that economy, they were obliged to keep. --Paley.

4. Thrifty and frugal housekeeping; management without loss or waste; frugality in expenditure; prudence and disposition to save; as, a housekeeper accustomed to economy but not to parsimony.

Political economy. See under Political.

Syn: Economy, Frugality, Parsimony. Economy avoids all waste and extravagance, and applies money to the best advantage; frugality cuts off indulgences, and proceeds on a system of saving. The latter conveys the idea of not using or spending superfluously, and is opposed to lavishness or profusion. Frugality is usually applied to matters of consumption, and commonly points to simplicity of manners; parsimony is frugality carried to an extreme, involving meanness of spirit, and a sordid mode of living. Economy is a virtue, and parsimony a vice.

I have no other notion of economy than that it is the parent to liberty and ease. --Swift.

The father was more given to frugality, and the son to riotousness [luxuriousness]. --Golding.

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