the area around a particular placeCrowds gathered in the vicinity of Trafalgar Square.There is no hospital in the immediate vicinity.Word Originmid 16th cent. (in the sense ‘proximity’): from Latin vicinitas, from vicinus ‘neighbour’.Extra examplesThe police suggested that he leave the vicinity of the property.There is no hospital in the immediate vicinity.He usually objected strongly to anyone smoking in his vicinity.
See vicinity in the Oxford Learner's Dictionary of Academic English
