locality
Americannoun
plural
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a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there.
They moved to another locality.
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the state or fact of being local or having a location.
the locality that every material object must have.
noun
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a neighbourhood or area
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the site or scene of an event
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the fact or condition of having a location or position in space
Etymology
Origin of locality
From the Late Latin word locālitās, dating back to 1620–30. See local, -ity
Example Sentences
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There isn’t anywhere else that one can walk into and immediately satisfy the social instinct among a convivial and refreshingly diverse clientele in what is becoming an increasingly homogenized locality.
From Los Angeles Times
The two localities, home to about 40,000 people, decided to take radical action around 25 years ago after predictions that their communal rubbish dump would be full by 2004.
From Barron's
The federal government has, so far, largely left it to states or localities to regulate data centers.
From Los Angeles Times
The bill, among other things, makes it easier to build manufactured homes, lessens regulations, and gives incentives to localities to encourage home building.
From Barron's
This figure rises to 50 percent for non-Jewish Israelis, and reaches 70 percent in Arab localities in the north.
From Barron's
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