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Locality definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

LOCAL'ITY, n.
1. Existence in a place, or in a certain portion of space.
It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.
2. Limitation to a county, district or place; as locality of trial.
3. Position; situation; place; particularly; geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a surrounding or nearby region; "the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville"; "it is a rugged locality"; "he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood"; "I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods" [syn: vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods]

Merriam Webster's

noun (plural -ties) Date: 1628 1. the fact or condition of having a location in space or time 2. a particular place, situation, or location

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (pl. -ies) 1 a district or neighbourhood. 2 the site or scene of something, esp. in relation to its surroundings. 3 the position of a thing; the place where it is. Etymology: F localité or LL localitas (as LOCAL)

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Locality Lo*cal"i*ty, n.; pl. Localitiees. [L. localitas: cf. F. localit['e].] 1. 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. --Glanvill.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(localities) A locality is a small area of a country or city. (FORMAL) Following the discovery of the explosives the president cancelled his visit to the locality... = area N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Position, situation, place, location.

Moby Thesaurus

abode, area, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, district, domain, emplacement, field, habitat, haunt, hole, home, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, located, location, locus, native environment, neighborhood, pinpoint, place, placed, placement, point, position, positioned, province, range, region, section, sector, set, site, situate, situation, situs, sphere, spot, stamping ground, stead, territory, tract, vicinage, vicinity, whereabout, whereabouts, zone