vicinage

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈvɪsɪnɪdʒ/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A surrounding district; a neighbourhood. archaic,countable,uncountable
    — She is the only flower of fragrance that has blown in this vicinage for ten years past, or will for ten years to come […].
  2. The people of a neighbourhood. archaic,countable,uncountable
  3. The state of living near something; proximity, closeness. countable,uncountable
    — 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.
  4. The area where a crime was committed, a trial is being held, or the community from which jurors are drawn. UK,US,countable,uncountable
  5. 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 New-Jersey,countable,uncountable
  6. 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 New-Jersey,countable,uncountable

词形变化

vicinages plural

词汇关系

相关词
vicinity vicinal

词源

From Old French visnage, respelled to more closer match its Latin source vīcīnus (“neighbor”). By surface analysis, vicine + -age.
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