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locality - Meaning and Examples

Meaning of 'locality' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Locality [ n.]
- The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
- Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
- Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.
- The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Meaning of 'locality' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . locality [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a surrounding or nearby region
Example in sentence:
  • 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;
  • it is a rugged locality;
  • the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville