local
pronunciation
How to pronounce local in British English:
UK [ˈləʊkl]
How to pronounce local in American English:
US [ˈloʊkl]
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- Noun:
- public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
- anesthetic that numbs a local area of the body
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- Adjective:
- relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
- of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
- affecting only a restricted part or area of the body
Word Origin
- local
- local: [15] Latin locus meant ‘place’ (it became in due course French lieu, acquired by English in the 13th century, and was itself adopted into English as a mathematical term in the 18th century). From it was derived the verb locāre ‘place’, source of English locate [18] and location [16], and the post-classical adjective locālis, from which English gets local. The noun locale is a mock frenchification of an earlier local [18], an adoption of the French use of the adjective local as a noun.=> lieu, locomotive, locus
- local (adj.)
- "pertaining to position," late 14c. (originally medical, "confined to a particular part of the body"), from Old French local (13c.) and directly from Late Latin localis "pertaining to a place," from Latin locus "place" (see locus). The meaning "limited to a particular place" is from c. 1500. Local color is from 1721, originally a term in painting; meaning "anything picturesque" is from c. 1900.
- local (n.)
- early 15c., "a medicament applied to a particular part of the body," from local (adj.). Meaning "inhabitant of a particular locality" is from 1825. The meaning "a local train" is from 1879; "local branch of a trade union" is from 1888; "neighborhood pub" is from 1934.
Synonym
Example
- 1. Local whites are equally upbeat .
- 2. Second , a lot of envy is local .
- 3. The first is taking brands from local to global .
- 4. Advertise in your local paper .
- 5. Local winters are very severe .