| Main Entry: | district |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | geographical area |
Synonyms: |
commune, community, department, locale, locality, neck of the woods, neighborhood, parcel, parish, precinct, quarter, region, section, sector, stomping ground, territory, turf*, vicinage, vicinity, ward |
| Main Entry: | neighborhood |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | community, surroundings |
Synonyms: |
adjacency, area, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |
| Main Entry: | vicinity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | local area |
Synonyms: |
around*, ballpark, district, environment, environs, hood, locality, nearness, neck of the woods, neighborhood, precinct, pretty near, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, range, region, surroundings, territory, turf*, vicinage |
Antonyms: |
faraway |
| Main Entry: | nearness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | nearness in time or space |
Synonyms: |
adjacency, approach, approximation, closeness, contiguity, immediacy, imminence, likeness, loom, neighborhood, propinquity, proximity, resemblance, similarity, vicinage, vicinity |
Antonyms: |
difference, distance, remoteness |
| Main Entry: | neck of the woods |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | a particular area |
Synonyms: |
backyard, locality, neighborhood, region, stamping ground, vicinage, vicinity |
| Main Entry: | locality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | neighborhood |
Synonyms: |
adjacency, area, belt, block, closeness, confines, contiguity, district, environs, ghetto, hood, jungle*, locale, nearness, neck of the woods, parish, part, precinct, propinquity, proximity, purlieus, quarter, region, section, slum, stomping ground, street, suburb, territory, tract, turf, vicinage, vicinity, ward, zone, zoo |
| Notes: | a location is a place, a locality is an area within a place, and a locale is a place regarded as an environment |
| Main Entry: | district |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
Antarctalian, Arctalian, Lutetian, Novanglian, amphigean, azonic, civil, classical, costumbrista, gerontogeous, holarctic, illocal, local, manx, orarian, parochial, provincial, sympatric, tedesco, territorial, topopolitan, transpadane
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| Main Entry: | nearness |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2, noun |
Related
Adjectives: |
accolent, adjacent, adjoining, affluent, approaching, approximative, asymptotical, at hand, cheek by jowl, close, close at hand, convergent, converging, equidistant, handy, home, imminent, impending, inby, intimate, limitrophe, near, near at hand, near run, near the mark, neighboring, neolocal, nigh, penadjacent, propinquant, proximal, proximate, subcontiguous, vicinage, vicinal, youward
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| Concept: | Nearness. |
| Category: | 1. GENERAL DIMENSIONS |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
nearness; proximity, propinquity; vicinity, vicinage; neighborhood, adjacency; contiguity., 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, suburbs, confines, banlieue, borderland; whereabouts., bystander; neighbor, borderer., approach; convergence; perihelion.
-verbs
-adjectives
near, nigh; close at hand, near at hand; close, neighboring; bordering upon, contiguous, adjacent, adjoining; proximate, proximal; at hand, handy; near the mark, near run; home, intimate.
-adverbs
near, nigh; hard by, fast by; close to, close upon; hard upon; at the point of; next door to; within reach, within call, within hearing, within earshot; within an ace of; but a step, not far from, at no great distance; on the verge of, on the brink of, on the skirts of; in the environs; at one's door, at one's feet, at one's elbow, at one's finger's end, at one's side; on the tip of one's tongue; under one's nose; within a stone's throw; in sight of, in presence of; at close quarters; cheek by jole, cheek by jowl; beside, alongside, side by side, tete-a-tete; in juxtaposition (touching); yardarm to yardarm, at the heels of; on the confines of, at the threshold, bordering upon, verging to; in the way., about; hereabouts, thereabouts; roughly, in round numbers; approximately, approximatively; as good as, well-nigh.
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Antonyms: |
distance |
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