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

Nearby Words:

loca local locale localism localitiees localization localize localized localizing locally

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Patrilocality
Patrilocality is a family residential pattern in which the wife is expected to live near the husband's parents.
Matrilocality
Matrilocality is a family residential pattern in which the husband is expected to live near the wife's parents.

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