Vicinage

Quick meaning: Vicinage is a noun meaning (now rare) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.

Meaning

(now rare) A surrounding district; a neighbourhood.

More Meanings

1. (now rare) The people of a neighbourhood.
2. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness.
3. (British, US, law) The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn.
4. (New Jersey, law) A geographical division of the New Jersey Superior Court, covering one or more counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the Superior Court
5. (New Jersey, law) A geographical division of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey, covering several counties, for judicial administration and the assignment of venue to an action within the District Court

Example Sentences

She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].

It was as still as a church on a week-day: the pattering rain on the forest leaves was the only sound audible in its vicinage.

In the few years that she had lived here, a stranger herself, in some sort—not accustomed, as was her husband, to a lifelong vicinage to the pygmy burial-ground—she had developed no receptivity to that uncanny idea of a race of dwarfs.

Word Forms

• vicinages

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include area, arrondissement, quartier, parish, vingtaine, banlieue.

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