Locality

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A particular neighborhood, place, or district: "Localities, even individual villages, developed their own languages” ( Wall Street Journal).
  • n. The fact or quality of having position in space.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The fact or quality of having a position in space.
  • n. pl. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
  • n. The situation or position of an object.
  • n. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
  • n. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
  • n. The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
  • n. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
  • n. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
  • n. The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The condition of being in a place; position or situation in general; the immediate relation of an object to a place.
  • n. Any part of space; a situation; position; particularly, a geographical place or situation: as, a healthy locality; the locality of a mineral, plant, or animal. Compare habitat, 2.
  • n. Legal restriction as to place or location.
  • n. In phrenology, the faculty to which is ascribed the power of remembering the details of places and the location of objects.
  • n. In phytogeography, the approximate geographic position of an individual specimen: less definite than. station.
  • n. In psychology, a phrase loosely formed on the analogy of ‘sense of space,’ ‘sense of time,’ etc., to denote the power of cutaneous localization, that is, of referring a cutaneous stimulus to the area of the skin to which it is applied.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a surrounding or nearby region
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    section   
    Hyponym
    proximity    Gold Coast    Montmartre    Right Bank    Latin Quarter    scenery    Left Bank    place    Charlestown    'hood   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    position    situation    place    spot   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    district    surrounding    climate    region    province    location    territory    neighbourhood    neighborhood    personage