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/loʊkˈæləti/ Listen

noun

Locality n. (pl. localitiees)

The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. "It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality."

Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.

Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.

(Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

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Etymology of 'Locality'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Locality" Quotes from Famous Books

... line is not the only locality receiving unsolicited attention. Enemy gun positions far behind the lines are being plastered with high explosives and ...

— "And they thought we wouldn't fight" • Floyd Gibbons

... 1672; and in the Diary for the preceding year he complains that on account of his declining health, his entries will be but few. Nothing has been traced of his personal circumstances beyond the fact of his having lived for fourteen years in Covent Garden, then a fashionable locality." ...

— Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete • Samuel Pepys

... declining health made him be required at home, and since Richard was so often absent, it became matter of doubt whether the Misses May ought to be allowed to persevere, unassisted by older heads, in such a locality. ...

— The Daisy Chain, or Aspirations • Charlotte Yonge

... dock gates behind me I tramped through the steady drizzle, going parallel with the river and making for the Chinese quarter. The hour was about half-past eleven on one of those September nights when, in such a locality as this, a stifling quality seems to enter the atmosphere, rendering it all but unbreathable. A mist floated over the river, and it was difficult to say if the rain was still falling, indeed, or if the ample moisture upon my ...

— Tales of Chinatown • Sax Rohmer

... some of the doings respecting a statue proposed to me by the Common Council. The Mayor, who is a personal friend of mine, you see has vetoed the resolutions, not from a disapproval of their character, but because he did not like the locality proposed. He proposes the Central Park, and in this ...

— Samuel F. B. Morse, His Letters and Journals - In Two Volumes, Volume II • Samuel F. B. Morse

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