local
Word Statistics
Standard vocabulary
Used frequently in everyday conversation
Moderate complexity
Analysis:
- • Common vocabulary word
- • Simple pronunciation
noun
1. A person who lives near a given place.
"It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
"I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
3. 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."
4. One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
"I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."
5. A locally scoped identifier.
"Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable."
6. An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
Synonyms
adjective
1. From or in a nearby location.
"We prefer local produce."
2. (of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
3. (of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
4. Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
"The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia."
5. Descended from an indigenous population.
"Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population."
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Antonyms
adverb
1. In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.
"It's never been more important to buy local."
noun
1. An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
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