Definitions for vicinage

vicinage vic·i·nage

Spelling: [vis-uh-nij]
IPA: /ˈvɪs ə nɪdʒ/

Vicinage is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 179 anagrams from letters in vicinage (acegiinv).

Definitions for vicinage

noun

  1. the region near or about a place; vicinity.
  2. a particular neighborhood or district, or the people belonging to it.
  3. proximity.

Origin of vicinage

1275-1325; Latin vīcīn(us) near (see vicinity) + -age; replacing Middle English vesinage Middle French Latin, as above

Examples for vicinage

These were to be of his vicinage, but not bound to him by the tie whether of blood or marriage.

He pioneered the ancestors of almost every family in this vicinage to this place.

After many days of wolfish travel he saw signs of the vicinage of the Shoshone Indians.

Beside, it is the vicinage of the most considerable gold-mines on all Borneo.

The animals revered by a tribe are those of its vicinage, the inhabitants of its hunting grounds.

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.

Howbeit, I was not sorry to hear that Nym should leave this vicinage, and thereby cease tormenting of our Helen.

It is communicated from one person to another by vicinage or by contact.

The servants of the vicinage are all on confidential terms with Mathew Mizzle; and—have you not noted the fact?

Not so the vicinage of an open receptacle for the waste of human indigestion.

Word Value for vicinage
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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