A surrounding or nearby region:
— The plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville.

synoniemen: locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, neighbourhood.

Roget 197: nearness etc. adj.; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity etc. 199.    short distance, short step, short cut; earshot, close quarters, stone's throw; bow shot, gun shot, pistol shot; hair's breadth, span.    purlieus, neighborhood, vicinage, environs, alentours [Fr.], suburbs, confines, banlieue^†, borderland; whereabouts.    bystander; neighbor, borderer^†.    approach etc. 286; convergence etc. 290; perihelion.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 227: circumjacence^†, circumambience^†; environment, encompassment; atmosphere, medium, surroundings.    outpost; border etc. (edge) 231; girdle etc. (circumference) 230; outskirts, boulebards, suburbs, purlieus, precincts, faubourgs^†, environs, entourage, banlieue^†; neighborhood, vicinage, vicinity.    ... meer laten zien

Nederlands: wijk, buurt, contreie, contreien, kader, milieu, nabijheid, omgeving, omstreek, omstreken, omtrek ... meer laten zien
Pools: okolica, pobliże, sąsiedztwo