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Local   /lˈoʊkəl/   Listen
Local

adjective
1.
Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.  "Local authorities"
2.
Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood.  "Local schools" , "The local citizens" , "A local point of view" , "Local outbreaks of flu" , "A local bus line"
3.
Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body.
noun
1.
Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops.
2.
Anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body.  Synonyms: local anaesthetic, local anesthetic, topical anaesthetic, topical anesthetic.



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"Local" Quotes from Famous Books



... was certainly a mother's sorrow! but what struck me most was the modulation of the voice, as if set to some local music. I never heard before the peasants lament their dead, but I am quite sure they all do it in more or less the same way, as if according to ...
— Without Dogma • Henryk Sienkiewicz
... not bring to memory, Sam remembered. Therefore, the new clown was a success, with the circus people at least. Jimmy Reynolds' gags were new around the show, and if Alfred was not receiving Jimmy's salary he was telling his jokes. Alfred introduced local talks, ...
— Watch Yourself Go By • Al. G. Field
... drink, this little man who was scalded by life. His day began thus: in the morning at his tea he looked over the local newspapers and drew from the news notices material for his feuilleton, which he wrote right then and there on the corner of the table. Then he ran to the editorial office, where he made up "Provincial Pictures" out of clippings from country newspapers. On Friday he had to ...
— Foma Gordyeff - (The Man Who Was Afraid) • Maxim Gorky
... him as if he were heir to a throne. The Senator, busy with his approaching entrance into local politics, had already introduced him to the leaders, who formed a rather mixed circle of intelligence and power. He had met its kind before on the frontier, where the common denominator in politics was manhood, not ...
— The Art of Disappearing • John Talbot Smith
... them, and finally a law providing for the importation of coolies, thus taxing the freedmen for the very purpose of taking the bread out of the mouths of their own children! I believe it turns out, after all, that these outraged people even then did not rise up against the local government; but the white ruffians of the island, goaded on by their own unchecked rapacity, and availing themselves of the infernal pretext of a black insurrection, perpetrated deeds of rapine and vengeance that find no parallel anywhere, save in the acts of their natural ...
— History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States • Wiliam H. Barnes


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