Word Finder - vicinity

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Proximity; the state of being near.

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There was a crackling sound in the vicinity of my right ear.

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Neighbourhood; nearby region; surrounding area.

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There is a hurricane in the vicinity of the Bahamas.

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Approximate size or amount.

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I weigh in the vicinity of 80kg.

In the vicinity are several fine mansions.

When a Bob-White quail continued calling from the vicinity of the pond, she headed that way.

Norfolk is the see of a Protestant Episcopal bishopric. The city has a public park of 110 acres and various smaller ones, and in the vicinity are several summer resorts, notably Virginia Beach, Ocean View, Old Point Comfort, Pine Beach and Willoughby Beach.

There are undrained, swampy districts in Campeche, in the vicinity of the Terminos Lagoon, where malarial diseases are prevalent, and the same conditions prevail along the coast where mangrove swamps are found.

Coal deposits exist in the immediate vicinity of the town.

Dean hadn't been in the vicinity of Shipton's fall.

In the vicinity of the towns are extensive lignite mines.

Except in the vicinity of cities and townships, however, little use has been made of the abundant deposits of clay.

In the vicinity of Bogucharovo were large villages belonging to the crown or to owners whose serfs paid quitrent and could work where they pleased.

The iron mills are almost all in the vicinity of Wheeling.

In the vicinity of Farnham it contains a bed of "coprolites" of considerable extent and 2 to 15 ft.

Extensive coal mines are in the vicinity, and there are manufactures of iron and steel, mill machinery, door and sash factories, etc., as well as several shipbuilding yards.

There are great forests in the vicinity.

Several varieties of water-fowl, especially curlews, pelicans, gulls, ducks, terns, geese and snipe, are found in the vicinity of the lakes.

Something warm and tingly began in the vicinity of her stomach and blood pumped fiercely in her neck.

In a general way it is supposed that the lands lying between the lower St Paul's river and the Sierra Leone frontier are not much mineralized, except that in the vicinity of river mouths there are indications of bitumen.

But this was only the external condition; the essential significance of the presence of the Emperor and of all these people, from a courtier's point of view (and in an Emperor's vicinity all became courtiers), was clear to everyone.

The climate is cool and bracing, and the products of the vicinity include many of the temperate zone.

The coast in the vicinity of Dives is fringed with small watering-places, those of Cabourg (to the west) and of Beuzeval and Houlgate (to the east) being practically united with it.

Cotton is grown in the vicinity, and is woven by the women into fabrics, which find a ready sale among the pagan tribes of the mountains.

There are coal mines and excellent farming lands in the vicinity of Lebanon.

The most magnificent of the city mosques is that of Sultan Hasan, standing in the immediate vicinity of the citadel.

Although of early origin, its appearance, like that of other great manufacturing towns of the vicinity, is wholly modern.

Of these the most remarkable is the group between the valleys of the Serchio and the Magra, commonly known as the mountains of Carrara, from the celebrated marble quarries in the vicinity of that city.

In this vicinity was situated, at the time of the Christian era, the Parthian city of Spasini-Charax, which was succeeded by Bahman Ardashir (Bamishir) under the Sassanians, and by Moharzi under the Arabs.

Iron, zinc and lead are found in the vicinity, and some coal is mined.

There is a salt lake or lagoon between the Cape Palmas river and the vicinity of the Cavalla.

Coal and iron ore abound in the vicinity, and the city, manufactures iron, steel, tin plate, electrical and telephone supplies, shovels, boilers, leather, flour, brick and tile, salt, furniture and several kinds of vehicles.

Several of the villas in the vicinity of the city are also his work.

The climate of Piura is modified by the lower latitude, and also by the vicinity of the forests of Guayaquil.

Tobacco is produced in the vicinity and sent to other parts of the Montana region.

Several early earthworks are seen in the vicinity, among which the circular camp on Bury Hill, S.W.

In the vicinity are large beds of kaolin, 30 m.

In the immediate vicinity of the city, on the Red river, cotton, sugar, alfalfa and garden vegetables are cultivated; south of the Red river is a peculiarly rich farming country watered by Bayou Rapides and Bayou Boeuf.

The Lower, with its abundant intercalated lavas and tuffs, extends continuously as a broad belt along the northern margin of the Central Plain, reappears in detached tracts along the southern border, is found again on the south side of the Uplands in Berwickshire and the Cheviot Hills, occupies a tract of Lorne (Oban and the vicinity) in Argyllshire, and on the north side of the Highlands underlies most of the low ground on both sides of the Moray Firth, stretches across Caithness and through nearly the whole of the Orkney Islands, and is prolonged into Shetland.

In Church Street and its vicinity still stand several specimens of the i 7th-century style of architecture of eastern Germany.

Among the public buildings are the capitol, the United States government building, a United States mint, and a state orphans' home; in the vicinity are the state prison and a United States government school for Indians.

It is shallow, and the shores in its vicinity are covered with small timber.

In the vicinity are New Hall, an interesting mansion of the 13th century, with a hall of the 16th, used as a boys' school; and Peddimore Hall, a moated mansion of the ancient family of Arden, of which there are slight remains.

The industrial population is employed in large collieries in the vicinity; and here, on the 7th of September 1893, serious riots during a strike resulted in the destruction of some of the colliery works belonging to Lord Masham, and were not quelled without military intervention and some bloodshed.

Many residences in the locality are occupied by those whose business lies in Manchester, who are attracted by the healthy climate and the vicinity of Bowdon Downs and Dunham Massey Woods.

The town is, however, an important wine-market, and the vineyards of the vicinity are the chief source of its prosperity, which is enhanced by its port on the Canal du Midi.

In the vicinity of the rivers Benue, Faro and Kebbi, the people, who are good agriculturists, raise cereals and other crops, while on the plateaus stock-raising forms the chief pursuit of the inhabitants.

Numerous remains have been discovered on the Lindenberg, a hill in the vicinity.

In the vicinity of - Mostaganem are the Dahra mountains, honeycombed with caves.

Clay for the "Baggers," or cases in which the wares are fired, is mined in the vicinity, but the raw materials for the fine grades of pottery are obtained elsewhere.

The city is a trading centre for a prosperous farming region, and coal is mined in the vicinity.

Extensive coal mines exist in the vicinity; and at Gateshead Fell are large quarries for grindstones, which are much esteemed and are exported to all parts of the world.

In the vicinity are the Governor's Mansion, the Supreme Court Building, the State Library, the building of the State Department of Agriculture, housing the State Museum (of geology, mineralogy, agriculture and horticulture, botany, zoology, ethnology, &c.), and the Post Office.

Though situated near the mountainous section of southern Buenos Aires, the immediate vicinity of the city is low and swampy, its water is brackish, and it has been decidedly unhealthy; but a water supply from the Sauce Grande, 50 m.