Locality Definition

lō-kălĭ-tē
localities
noun
localities
Position with regard to surrounding objects, landmarks, etc.
A sense of locality.
Webster's New World
A place; district; neighborhood.
Webster's New World
The fact or quality of having position in space.
American Heritage

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

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Noun

Singular:
locality
Plural:
localities

Origin of Locality

  • French localité from Late Latin locālitās from locālis local local

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin localitas.

    From Wiktionary

Locality Sentence Examples

  • Objects produced in one locality are found in others.

  • The locality and the position of our troops were known to him as far as they could be known to anyone in our army.

  • Setting aside London and Edinburgh, no locality in the British Isles is so intimately associated with the history of English literature as the Lake District.

  • Remains of the city walls, with traces of one gate and several towers, of a total length of over 3 m., still exist, and belong to three different periods, in all of which the crystalline limestone of the locality is used.

  • The climate of the locality is better than that of the other districts of Berar; the hot wind which blows during the day in the summer months being succeeded at night by a cool breeze.

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Words Starting With

LLOLOC

Words Ending With

YTYITY

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Words Starting With L and Ending With Y

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8 Letter Words8 Letter Words Starting With L8 Letter Words Ending With Y