vicinity

noun

1 many famous writers made their homes in the vicinity:

surrounding district, surrounding area, neighborhood, locality, locale, local area, area, district, region, quarter, sector, territory, domain, place, zone;

environs, surroundings, surrounds, precincts, purlieus;

informal this neck of the woods;

technical locus;

rare vicinage.

2 the forest's vicinity to the dockyards made it a vital source of timber:

nearness, closeness, proximity, propinquity, adjacency, juxtaposition;

accessibility, handiness;

rare contiguity, contiguousness, vicinage.

□ in the vicinity

his fortune is in the vicinity of three million pounds:

around, about, nearly, approaching, just about, just over, just under, roughly, something like, more or less;

in the region of, in the neighborhood of, near to, close to, close on;

British getting on for;

Latin circa;

North American, informal in the ballpark of.