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local `adjective` [ ˈləʊk(ə)l ]

• relating or restricted to a particular area or one's neighbourhood.

• "researching local history"

Similar: community, district, neighbourhood, regional, city, town, municipal, provincial, village, parish, parish-pump, parochial, domestic, internal, home,

Opposite: national, global,

• (in technical use) relating to a particular region or part, or to each of any number of these.

• "a local infection"

Similar: confined, restricted, contained, limited, localized, circumscribed, delimited, specific, particular,

Opposite: general,

local `noun`

• an inhabitant of a particular area or neighbourhood.

• "the street was full of locals and tourists"

Similar: local person, native, inhabitant, resident, parishioner, citizen, denizen, burgher, local yokel,

Opposite: outsider,

Origin: late Middle English: from late Latin localis, from Latin locus ‘place’.

local adjective [ ˈləʊk(ə)l ]

local noun

local `adjective` [ ˈləʊk(ə)l ]

local `noun`