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French
Etymology
From circon- + voisin, perhaps based on, if not borrowed from, Latin circumvicinus.
Pronunciation
Adjective
circonvoisin (feminine circonvoisine, masculine plural circonvoisins, feminine plural circonvoisines)
- (literary ) surrounding, located around, circumjacent
1837, Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, chapter XXV, in Louis Viardot, transl., L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manche, volume II, Paris: J-J Dubochet et Cie, éditeurs, , →OCLC:Tout cela se sut et se répandit dans les villages circonvoisins.- All of that became known and spread into the neighboring villages.
References
Middle French
Adjective
circonvoisin m (feminine singular circonvoisine, masculine plural circonvoisins, feminine plural circonvoisines)
- neighboring, located around, circumjacent.