local

See also lo-cal

English

Etymology

(adjective) From Old French local, from Late Latin localis (“belonging to a place”), from Latin locus (“a place”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈləʊkl/, SAMPA: /"l@Ukl/
• (US) IPA: /ˈloʊkl/, SAMPA: /"loUkl/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -əʊkəl

Adjective

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

1. From or in a nearby location.

   We prefer local produce.

2. (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
3. (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
4. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

   The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.

5. Descended from an indigenous population.

   Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

Synonyms

• (medicine): topical

Antonyms

• global

Translations

of a nearby location

Arabic: مَحَلّيّ (ar) (maHalliyy) Armenian: please add this translation if you can Bengali: আঞ্চলিক (bn) (ancôlik) Chinese: Mandarin: 本地 (zh) (běndì), 當地 (zh), 当地 (zh) (dāngdì) Croatian: mjȅsnī (hr), lòkālan (hr) Czech: místní (cs) Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: lokaal (nl), plaatselijk (nl) Esperanto: please add this translation if you can Estonian: kohalik (et), lokaalne (et) Finnish: paikallinen (fi), lähi- (fi) French: local (fr) German: lokal (de), örtlich (de) Greek: τοπικός (el) (topikós) m. Hebrew: please add this translation if you can

Hindi: स्थानीय (hi) (sthānīy) Hungarian: helyi (hu) Italian: locale (it) Japanese: 現地 (ja) (げんち, genchi) Korean: 지방의 (ko) (jibang-ui) Latin: localis (la) m. and f., locale (la) n. Luxembourgish: lokal (lb) Persian: محلی (fa) (mahalli) Portuguese: local (pt) m. and f. Romanian: local (ro) m. and n. Russian: местный (ru) (méstnyj) Scottish Gaelic: ionadail (gd) Spanish: local (es) Thai: ส่วนท้องถิ่น (th) (sùan-tóng-tìn), ท้องถิ่น (th) (tóng-tìn) Turkish: yerel (tr), lokal (tr), mahallî (tr), yöresel (tr), mevzii (tr) Vietnamese: địa phương (vi) (地方 (vi))

computing: having limited scope

Finnish: paikallinen (fi)

Russian: локальный (ru) (lokál'nyj)

math: applying to a limited space

Finnish: likimääräinen (fi) Icelandic: staðbundinn (is) m., stað- (is)

Russian: локальный (ru) (lokál'nyj)

medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism

Finnish: paikallinen (fi), paikallis- (fi) Latin: localis (la) m. and f., locale (la) n. Romanian: local (ro) m. and n., locală (ro) f.

Russian: местный (ru) (méstnyj), локальный (ru) (lokál'nyj) Spanish: local (es)

Noun

local (plural locals)

1. A person who lives nearby.

   It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

   I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

3. (rail transport) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

   The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.

4. (UK) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
5. (programming) A locally scoped identifier.

   Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.

Synonyms

• (rail transport) stopper

Antonyms

• (rail transport) fast, express

Derived terms

• localism
• locally

Translations

a person who lives nearby

Dutch: plaatselijke bewoner (nl) Finnish: paikkakuntalainen (fi) Greek: ντόπιος (el) (ntópios) m. Hungarian: helyi (hu), helybeli (hu)

Italian: locale  (it) Russian: местный (ru) (m'éstnyj) m., туземец (ru) (tuz'ém'ec) m. Spanish: vecino (es) m., vecina (es) f. Turkish: yerli (tr), mahalleli (tr)

a branch of an organization

Finnish: paikallisyhdistys (fi), paikallisosasto (fi)

a train that stops at all stations

Dutch: lokale trein (nl) m., lokaaltrein (nl) m. Finnish: paikallisjuna (fi)

Italian: locale  (it)

(UK) the nearest bar

Dutch: stamcafé (nl) n., stamkroeg (nl) m. and f.

Finnish: paikallinen (fi), lähikuppila (fi)

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Translations to be checked

French: local German: lokal

Portuguese: local Swedish: lokal, ortlig Spanish: local

Related terms

• locus
• locality
• localization
• localize
• locate
• location
• locative
• locator

External links

• local in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• local in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• local at OneLook Dictionary Search

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Catalan

Adjective

local m. and f. (plural locals)

1. local

Derived terms

• localitzar

Related terms

• lloc
• localitat

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French

Etymology

From Late Latin localis, from Latin locus.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

local m. (f. locale, m. plural locaux, f. plural locales)

1. local

Antonyms

• global

Noun

local m. (plural locaux)

1. room

Anagrams

• colla

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Portuguese

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lo.ˈkaʊ/

Adjective

local m. and f. (plural locais; comparable)

1. local

Noun

local m. (plural locais)

1. premises, rooms
2. site
3. place, location

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Spanish

Adjective

local m. and f. (plural locales)

1. local

Noun

local m. (plural locales)

1. premises, rooms