locality
noun/ləʊˈkæləti/
/ləʊˈkæləti/
(plural localities)
(formal)- the area that surrounds the place you are in or are talking about synonym vicinity
- people living in the locality of the power station
- in the locality There is no airport in the locality.
- the place where somebody/something exists
- We talk of the brain as the locality of thought.
- The birds are found in over 70 different localities.
Word Originearly 17th cent.: from French localité or late Latin localitas, from localis ‘relating to a place’, from Latin locus ‘place’.
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