local
See also: lo-cal
English
Etymology
The adjective is borrowed from Old French local, from Late Latin localis (“belonging to a place”), from Latin locus (“a place”).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈləʊkl̩/
- (General American) enPR: lōk′əl, IPA(key): /ˈloʊkl̩/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -əʊkəl
Adjective
local (comparative more local, superlative most local)
- From or in a nearby location.
- We prefer local produce.
- 1918, W. B. Maxwell, chapter 22, in The Mirror and the Lamp:
- Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. […] Next day she […] tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head. Then, thwarted, the wretched creature went to the police for help; she was versed in the law, and had perhaps spared no pains to keep on good terms with the local constabulary.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, in The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
- A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
- (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
- (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
- The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
- Descended from an indigenous population.
- Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.
Synonyms
- (medicine): topical
Antonyms
Translations
of a nearby location
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computing: having limited scope
math: applying to a limited space
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medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism
Noun
local (plural locals)
- A person who lives near a given place.
- It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
- I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
- (rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
- The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.
- (Britain) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
- I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
- (programming) A locally scoped identifier.
- Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.
- (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
- 1989, Road House, 39:59:
- Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you a local.
Synonyms
- (rail transport): stopper
Translations
a person who lives near a given place
a branch of an organization
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a train that stops at all stations
(UK) the nearest bar
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Derived terms
Terms derived from local (all parts of speech)
Related terms
Further reading
- local in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- local in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- local at OneLook Dictionary Search
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus
Derived terms
- localitzar
- localment
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /lɔ.kal/
audio (file)
Antonyms
Derived terms
Further reading
- “local” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Ladin
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus. Cognate with the inherited lugar.
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from French local, Late Latin localis.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /loˈkal/
Adjective
local m or n (feminine singular locală, masculine plural locali, feminine and neuter plural locale)
Declension
Spanish
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus. Compare the inherited doublet lugar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /loˈkal/
Noun
local m (plural locales)
- premises, rooms
- (Mexico) store or other retail unit in a shopping center
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