Search Result for "locality":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. a surrounding or nearby region;
- Example: "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"
- Example: "it is a rugged locality"
- Example: "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"
- Example: "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods"
[syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Locality \Lo*cal"i*ty\, n.; pl. Localitiees. [L. localitas: cf. F. localit['e].] 1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. [1913 Webster] It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. --Glanvill. [1913 Webster] 2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant. [1913 Webster] 3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster] 4. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
50 Moby Thesaurus words for "locality": abode, area, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, district, domain, emplacement, field, habitat, haunt, hole, home, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, located, location, locus, native environment, neighborhood, pinpoint, place, placed, placement, point, position, positioned, province, range, region, section, sector, set, site, situate, situation, situs, sphere, spot, stamping ground, stead, territory, tract, vicinage, vicinity, whereabout, whereabouts, zone
