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Meaning of "local" in the English dictionary

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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD LOCAL

Via Old French from Late Latin locālis, from Latin locus place, locus.
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PRONUNCIATION OF LOCAL

local  [ˈləʊkəl] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF LOCAL

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Local can act as a noun and an adjective.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

WHAT DOES LOCAL MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Local

Local usually refers to something nearby, or in the immediate area. Local may refer to...

Definition of local in the English dictionary

The first definition of local in the dictionary is characteristic of or associated with a particular locality or area. Other definition of local is of, concerned with, or relating to a particular place or point in space. Local is also stopping at all stations or stops.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH LOCAL


afocal
ˈeɪˌfəʊkəl
bifocal
baɪˈfəʊkəl
confocal
kɒnˈfəʊkəl
focal
ˈfəʊkəl
hyperfocal
ˌhaɪpəˈfəʊkəl
interlocal
ˌɪntəˈləʊkəl
matrilocal
ˈmætrɪˌləʊkəl
multifocal
ˌmʌltɪˈfəʊkəl
nonlocal
nɒnˈləʊkəl
parfocal
pɑːˈfəʊkəl
patrilocal
ˌpætrɪˈləʊkəl
socle
ˈsəʊkəl
subvocal
sʌbˈvəʊkəl
trifocal
traɪˈfəʊkəl
univocal
ˌjuːnɪˈvəʊkəl
uxorilocal
ʌkˌsɔːrɪˈləʊkəl
varifocal
ˈvɛərɪˌfəʊkəl
virilocal
ˈvɪrɪˌləʊkəl
vocal
ˈvəʊkəl
yokel
ˈjəʊkəl

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE LOCAL

loc. cit.
local anaesthesia
local anaesthetic
local area network
local authority
local call
local colour
local council
local Derby
local education authority
local election
local examination
local examinations
local government
local government officer
Local Group
local is lekker
local loan
local option
local oscillator

WORDS THAT END LIKE LOCAL

equivocal
irreciprocal
matrifocal
multivocal
nonfocal
nonreciprocal
nonvocal
patrifocal
pedocal
reciprocal
semivocal
unequivocal
unvocal

Synonyms and antonyms of local in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «LOCAL»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «local» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of local

Translation of «local» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF LOCAL

Find out the translation of local to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of local from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «local» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

当地的
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

local
570 millions of speakers

English

local
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

स्थानीय
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

مَحَلِيّ
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

местный
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

local
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

সিআইটি।
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

local
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Cit.
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

örtlich
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

局部の
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

국소적인
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Cit.
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

thuộc địa phương
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

CIT.
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सीआयटी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Cit.
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

locale
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

lokalny
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

місцевий
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

local
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

τοπικός
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

plaaslike
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

lokal
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

lokal
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of local

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «LOCAL»

The term «local» is very widely used and occupies the 507 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of local
List of principal searches undertaken by users to access our English online dictionary and most widely used expressions with the word «local».

FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «LOCAL» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «local» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «local» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about local

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10 QUOTES WITH «LOCAL»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word local.
1
Hervey Allen
Local color has a fatal tendency to remain local; but it is also true that the universal often borders on the void.
2
Michael Baden
I get involved if a problem comes up after the death has been investigated by the local authority.
3
Bob Barr
The seemingly omnipresent storm clouds hanging over the Constitution often make it hard to find a silver lining. Every day, the front page of The Drudge Report is littered with stories of government assaults on our civil liberties - from local government officials all the way up to the Oval Office.
4
Joe Bastianich
My grandparents in Istria had a frasca, which is about the most basic kind of grocery/restaurant. They sold wine from their own vineyard. I took control of the vineyard, hired a local winemaker, and bought another winery in 1996. We had our first commercial vintage in 1998.
5
Jane Birkin
It's usually a jolly good trick to pick up a local tour guide. They can tell you all the anecdotes that make a place interesting. I'm one for rushing off to museums at the crack of dawn, eating fabulous things on terraces for lunch, and enjoying long dinners on balmy evenings.
6
Diane Black
In addition to being a nurse, I'm also a small business owner and I taught at a local community college. I'm also a proud mother of three and grandmother of six - all of them wonderful.
7
Roy Blunt
I'm confident that the commitment of the co-chairs of the Ferguson Commission - along with the work of other local leaders and the Missouri General Assembly - will have a very positive impact as this community works to move forward.
8
Joy Bryant
When I was younger, I was one of the few girls in the neighborhood who could break dance. That's kind of my local, ghetto-celebrity claim to fame.
9
Sean M. Carroll
If our local, observable universe is embedded in a larger structure, a multiverse, then there's other places in this larger structure that have denizens in them that call their local environs the universe. And conditions in those other places could be very different. Or they could be pretty similar to what we have here.
10
William Lacy Clay, Jr.
It's an issue that we need to have a national discussion about, the militarization of local police forces, and then when they are used to quell peaceful demonstration. Then we have a problem, and especially around this entire case of the murder of Michael Brown at the hands of a Ferguson police officer.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «LOCAL»

Discover the use of local in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to local and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Local Fields
This book provides a fairly elementary and self-contained introduction to local fields.
John William Scott Cassels, 1986
2
Local And Regional Development
What kinds of local and regional development should we be pursuing? This book addresses the fundamental issues of ‘what kind of local and regional development and for whom?’, frameworks of understanding, and instruments and policies.
Andy Pike, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, John Tomaney, 2006
3
Creative Cities, Cultural Clusters and Local Economic ...
Analyses the economic development of cities from the 'cultural economy' and 'creative industry' perspectives.
Philip N. Cooke, Luciana Lazzeretti, 2008
4
Comparative Issues in Local Government Accounting
This book aims to give a comparative international perspective on local government accounting innovations, and offers specific cases involving different economic, political and cultural conditions.
Eugenio Caperchione, Riccardo Mussari, 2000
5
Local Histories/Global Designs: Coloniality, Subaltern ...
Local Histories/Global Designs is an extended argument about the "coloniality" of power by one of the most innovative Latin American and Latino scholars.
Walter D. Mignolo, 2012
6
Local Search in Combinatorial Optimization
I would expect this volume to remain an important reference for quite a number of years."--William J. Cook, Georgia Institute of Technology
Emile H. L. Aarts, J. K. Lenstra, 2003
7
Local Governance in Africa: The Challenges of Democratic ...
An exploration of why some decentralization reforms have led to viable systems of local governance in Africa, while others have failed.
Dele Olowu, James Stevenson Wunsch, 2004
8
Comparative Education: The Dialectic of the Global and the Local
Comparative Education examines the common problems facing education systems around the world as the result of global economic, social, and cultural forces.
Robert F. Arnove, Carlos Alberto Torres, 2007
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Local Government and the States: Autonomy, Politics and Policy
This is an account of the dynamics and tensions in the relations between local and state governments in the United States.
David R. Berman, 2003
10
Documents on Contemporary British Government: Volume 2, ...
This book, originally published in 1977, is comprised of a selection of documents which have been carefully arranged and edited to illustrate the main characteristics of local government systems in Britain during a period of extensive ...
Martin Minogue, 1977

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «LOCAL»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term local is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Knight grant supports neighborhood 'buy local' program - Detroit News
A program that advances small business growth in northwest Detroit's District 1 by offering residents “buy local” incentives and providing ... «The Detroit News, Jul 15»
2
5 Ways To Use What Consumers Want To Boost Local SEO Strategy
Local businesses have unique competitive advantages over larger brands, and columnist Wesley Young analyzes a study by Yodle to find ... «Search Engine Land, Jul 15»
3
DISH customers may soon lose Local 6 | WKMG - Home
60% FOR SATURDAY. ALL RIGHT, TOM. THANK YOU. BYE. YOU KNOW, FROM TIME TO TIME YOU WAKE UP AND YOU GO TO BED, WKMG LOCAL 6 IS ON ... «WKMG Orlando, Jul 15»
4
6 Local Marketing Lessons Learned At Comic-Con
If you've read any of my past columns here, you know I'm pretty obsessed with local SEO — so, as I walked the massive convention center floor, ... «Search Engine Land, Jul 15»
5
Federal-Local Coordination on Immigration Enforcement: Prioritizing …
Policymakers should look at what more can be done to ensure better communication between federal and local authorities. But the furor ... «Center For American Progress, Jul 15»
6
State, local officials reviewing or changing policies on rape-kit testing
Local and state officials across the country are reviewing policies and procedures for processing rape kits after a USA TODAY Media Network ... «USA TODAY, Jul 15»
7
Local family saws their way out of locked car dealership | Fox News
A North Andover family that was stuck behind the locked gate of a Haverhill car dealership parking lot on Friday night entertained themselves ... «Fox News, Jul 15»
8
Local scouting council backs change in Boy Scouts of America's gay …
In this May 23, 2014, photo, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates addresses the Boy Scouts of America's annual meeting in Nashville, Tenn., ... «Chicago Tribune, Jul 15»
9
Dish Satellite customers about to lose WDIV-TV Local 4 | Home …
The satellite provider has been unwilling to strike a reasonable deal with the local content provider. On Wednesday, July 22 at 7 p.m. ... «WDIV Detroit, Jul 15»
10
'Mission SAVE' teams federal, local authorities together - KSDK.com
Authorities have released new information about a partnership that teams local and federal departments together to fight crime. Loading… «KSDK, Jul 15»

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