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English

Etymology

(adjective) From #French|local.

Pronunciation

(Received Pronunciation|UK) IPA: /ˈləʊkl/,
(General American|US) IPA: /ˈloʊkl/,
:Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-əʊkəl|-əʊkəl

Adjective

From or in a nearby location.
: We prefer local produce.
Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

Antonyms

global

Translations

Finnish:

Russian: {{t+|ru|местный|tr=m'éstnyj|sc=Cyrl}}

Noun

A person who lives nearby.
: It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
A branch of a an nationwide organization such as a trade union.
: I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
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.
One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.

Synonyms

In the Context of stopper

Antonyms

In the Context of fast, express

Derived terms

Translations

Finnish:
Hungarian: helyi, helybeli

Russian: {{t+|ru|местный|m|tr=m'éstnyj|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t|ru|туземец|m|tr=tuz'ém'ec|sc=Cyrl}}

Finnish: ,

Finnish:

Finnish:

: #Portuguese|local
: lokal, ortlig
: #Spanish|local

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French

Etymology

From localis, from locus.

Pronunciation

An audio transcript can be found at Fr-local.ogg

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Spanish

Noun

local

The premises.

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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Local \Lo"cal\, n.
1. (Railroad) A train which receives and deposits passengers
or freight along the line of the road; a train for the
accommodation of a certain district. [U.S.]

2. In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place
where the paper is published. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]

3. A train or bus which stops at all stations along a line,
as contrasted with an express, which stops only at
certain stations designated as express stops.
[PJC]

GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Local \Lo"cal\ (l[=o]"kal), a. [L. localis, fr. locus place: cf.
F. local. See Lieu, Locus.]
Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite
region or portion of space; restricted to one place or
region; as, a local custom.
[1913 Webster]

Gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name. --Shak.
[1913 Webster]

Local actions (Law), actions such as must be brought in a
particular county, where the cause arises; --
distinguished from transitory actions.

Local affection (Med.), a disease or ailment confined to a
particular part or organ, and not directly affecting the
system.

Local attraction (Magnetism), an attraction near a compass,
causing its needle to deviate from its proper direction,
especially on shipboard.

Local battery (Teleg.), the battery which actuates the
recording instruments of a telegraphic station, as
distinguished from the battery furnishing a current for
the line.

Local circuit (Teleg.), the circuit of the local battery.

Local color.
(a) (Paint.) The color which belongs to an object, and is not
caused by accidental influences, as of reflection,
shadow, etc.
(b) (Literature) Peculiarities of the place and its
inhabitants where the scene of an action or story is
laid.

Local option, the right or obligation of determining by
popular vote within certain districts, as in each county,
city, or town, whether the sale of alcoholic beverages
within the district shall be allowed.
[1913 Webster]

WordNet local
adj 1: relating to or applicable to or concerned with the
administration of a city or town or district rather
than a larger area; "local taxes"; "local authorities"
[ant: national]
2: of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular
locality or neighborhood; "local customs"; "local
schools"; "the local citizens"; "a local point of view";
"local outbreaks of flu"; "a local bus line"
3: affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; "local
anesthesia" [ant: general]
n 1: public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at
all stations or stops; "the local seemed to take forever
to get to New York" [ant: express]
2: anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body [syn: {local
anesthetic}, local anaesthetic, topical anesthetic, {topical
anaesthetic}]

Moby Dictionary
Amtrak , Pullman , Pullman car , aboriginal , aborigine , adjoining ,
affiliate , alehouse , arm , autochthon , baggage car , baggage train ,
bar , barrel house , barroom , beer garden , beer parlor , bistro ,
blind tiger , boxcar , branch , branch office , cabaret ,
cable railroad , caboose , cafe , car , carriage , chair car , chapter ,
choo-choo , city , close by , coach , coal car , cocktail lounge ,
cog railroad , cog railway , collective bargaining , company union ,
confined , county , covered waggon , craft union , day coach , dialect ,
dialectal , diner , dinghy , dining car , district , dive , division ,
dramshop , drawing room , drinking saloon , earliest inhabitant , el ,
electric , electric train , elevated , express , express train ,
first comer , flat , flatcar , flier , freight , freight train ,
freighter , funicular , geographically limited , gin mill , gondola ,
goods train , groggery , grogshop , honky-tonk , horizontal union ,
idiomatic , indigene , industrial union , insular , interurban ,
labor union , lightning express , limited , local union , local yokel ,
localized , lodge , luggage van , mail car , mail van , metro ,
milk train , monorail , municipal , native , nearby , nightclub ,
of a place , offshoot , organ , organized labor , palace car ,
parliamentary , parliamentary train , parlor car , parochial ,
particular , passenger car , passenger train , peculiar , post ,
pothouse , primitive , primitive settler , provincial , pub , public ,
public house , rack-and-pinion railroad , railroad train ,
railway car , rathskeller , rattler , reefer , refrigerator car ,
regional , resident , restricted , rolling stock , roomette , rumshop ,
saloon , saloon bar , sectarian , shire , shuttle , shuttle train ,
sleeper , small-town , smoker , smoking car , speakeasy , special ,
specific , state , stockcar , streamliner , subway , tank , taproom ,
tavern , tender , topical , town , townsman , townswoman , trade guild ,
trade union , train , truck , tube , underground , union local , van ,
vernacular , vertical union , village , waggon , way train , wine shop ,
wing

LOCAL. Pertaining to a place; something annexed to the freehold or tied to a certain place; as, local courts, or courts whose jurisdiction is limited to a particular place; local allegiance, or allegiance due while you are in a particular place or country; local taxes, or those which are collected for particular districts.