locale
pronunciation
How to pronounce locale in British English:
UK [ləʊˈkɑ:l]
How to pronounce locale in American English:
US [loʊˈkæl]
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- Noun:
- the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
Word Origin
- locale (n.)
- 1772, local, from French local, noun use of local (adj.), from Latin locus "place" (see locus). English spelling with -e (1816) probably is based on morale or else to indicate stress.The word's right to exist depends upon the question whether the two indispensable words locality & scene give all the shades of meaning required, or whether something intermediate is useful. [Fowler]
Example
- 1. Please note your locale in your comment .
- 2. Others die in an intensive-care unit or other hospital locale .
- 3. The content and methods of medical ethics teaching varies with audience and locale .
- 4. Scripts can be run interactively in a terminal , started as a long running service , or started via locale .
- 5. It may be a good idea to know the encoding required ahead of time for the particular translation locale .