local

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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

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

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Adjective [edit]

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

  1. From or in a nearby location.
    We prefer local produce.
    • 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly): 
      A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
  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.

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Translations [edit]

of a nearby location
computing: having limited scope
math: applying to a limited space
medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism

Noun [edit]

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.
    I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
  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.
  6. (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

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a person who lives nearby
a branch of an organization
a train that stops at all stations
(UK) the nearest bar
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Asturian [edit]

Adjective [edit]

local (epicene, plural locales)

  1. Alternative form of llocal.

Catalan [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin locālis.

Adjective [edit]

local m, f (masculine and feminine plural locals)

  1. local

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French [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Late Latin localis, from Latin locus.

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local m (feminine locale, masculine plural locaux, feminine plural locales)

  1. local

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Noun [edit]

local m (plural locaux)

  1. room

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Portuguese [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin locālis.

Pronunciation [edit]

Adjective [edit]

local m and f (plural locais; comparable)

  1. local

Noun [edit]

local m (plural locais)

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

Spanish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

From Latin locālis.

Adjective [edit]

local m and f (plural locales)

  1. local

Noun [edit]

local m (plural locales)

  1. premises, rooms
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