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Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (4)
1. a point or extent in space;
2. the act of putting something in a certain place;
[syn: placement, location, locating, position, positioning, emplacement]
3. a determination of the place where something is;
- Example: "he got a good fix on the target"
[syn: localization, localisation, location, locating, fix]
4. a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made;
- Example: "they shot the film on location in Nevada"
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Location \Lo*ca"tion\, n. [L. locatio, fr. locare.] 1. The act or process of locating. [1913 Webster] 2. Situation; place; locality. --Locke. [1913 Webster] 3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. [U.S.] [1913 Webster] 4. (Law) (a) (Civil Law) A leasing on rent. (b) (Scots Law) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. --Wharton. (c) (Amer. Law) The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc. --Burrill. Bouvier. [1913 Webster]Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
133 Moby Thesaurus words for "location": allocation, arable land, assignment, barnyard, barton, bearings, bringing to light, case, casual discovery, catching, cattle ranch, chance discovery, chicken farm, circumstance, collective farm, collocation, condition, cotton plantation, croft, dairy farm, demesne, demesne farm, deployment, deposit, deposition, detection, determination, determining, disclosure, discovery, disposition, distinguishment, dry farm, dude ranch, emplacement, espial, estate, excavation, exhumation, exposure, factory farm, fallow, farm, farmery, farmhold, farmland, farmplace, farmstead, farmyard, find, finding, finding out, fix, footing, fruit farm, fur farm, grain farm, grange, grassland, hacienda, homecroft, homefarm, homestead, invention, jam, kibbutz, kolkhoz, lading, loading, locale, localization, locating, locus, lot, lucky strike, mains, manor farm, modality, mode, orchard, packing, pass, pasture, pen, pickle, pinpointing, place, placement, placing, plantation, plight, point, position, positioning, posting, posture, poultry farm, predicament, putting, ranch, rancheria, rancho, rank, recognition, rediscovery, reposition, revelation, serendipity, setting, sheep farm, site, situation, spot, spotting, standing, state, station, stationing, status, steading, stock farm, storage, stowage, strike, toft, tracking down, treasure trove, trouvaille, trove, truck farm, uncovering, unearthing, where
