local

English

Etymology

(adjective) From Old French local, from Late Latin localis (“belonging to a place”), from Latin locus (“a place”).

Pronunciation

(RP) IPA: /ˈləʊkl/, X-SAMPA: /"l@Ukl/
(GenAm) IPA: /ˈloʊkl/, X-SAMPA: /"loUkl/
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Rhymes: -əʊkəl

Adjective

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

From or in a nearby location.
- 2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things”, The Economist, volume 405, number 8813, page 3 (Technology Quarterly):
  A farmer could place an order for a new tractor part by text message and pay for it by mobile money-transfer. A supplier many miles away would then take the part to the local matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
We prefer local produce.
(computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
(mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
(medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia.
Descended from an indigenous population.
Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population.

Synonyms

(medicine): topical

Antonyms

global

Translations

of a nearby location

Arabic: مَحَلّيّ (ar) (maHalliyy)
Armenian: please add this translation if you can
Bengali: আঞ্চলিক (bn) (ancôlik)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 本地 (cmn) (běndì), 當地 (cmn), 当地 (cmn) (dāngdì)
Czech: místní (cs)
Danish: lokal (da)
Dutch: lokaal (nl), plaatselijk (nl)
Esperanto: loka (eo)
Estonian: kohalik (et), lokaalne (et)
Finnish: paikallinen (fi), lähi- (fi)
French: local (fr) m, locale (fr) f
German: lokal (de), örtlich (de)
Greek: τοπικός (el) (topikós) m
Hebrew: מקומי (he) (m'komí)
Hindi: स्थानीय (hi) (sthānīy)
Hungarian: helyi (hu)
Icelandic: staðbundinn (is)

Irish: logánta (ga), áitiúil (ga)
Italian: locale (it)
Japanese: 現地 (ja) (げんち, genchi)
Korean: 지방의 (ko) (jibang-ui)
Latin: localis (la)
Luxembourgish: lokal (lb)
Norwegian: lokal (no)
Persian: محلی (fa) (mahalli)
Portuguese: local (pt)
Romanian: local (ro)
Russian: местный (ru) (méstnyj)
Scottish Gaelic: ionadail (gd)
Serbo-Croatian: mjȅsnī (sh), lòkālan (sh)
Spanish: local (es)
Thai: ส่วนท้องถิ่น (th) (sùan-tóng-tìn), ท้องถิ่น (th) (tóng-tìn)
Turkish: yerel (tr), lokal (tr), mahallî (tr), yöresel (tr), mevzii (tr)
Vietnamese: địa phương (vi) (地方 (vi))

computing: having limited scope

Finnish: paikallinen (fi)
French: local (fr) m, locale (fr) f

Irish: logánta (ga), áitiúil (ga)
Russian: локальный (ru) (lokál'nyj)

math: applying to a limited space

Finnish: likimääräinen (fi)
Icelandic: staðbundinn (is) m, stað- (is)

Japanese: 局所 (ja) (kyokusho)
Russian: локальный (ru) (lokál'nyj)

medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism

Finnish: paikallinen (fi), paikallis- (fi)
Latin: localis (la)
Romanian: local (ro) m and n, locală (ro) f

Russian: местный (ru) (méstnyj), локальный (ru) (lokál'nyj)
Spanish: local (es)

Noun

local (plural locals)

A person who lives nearby.
It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.
A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.
(rail transport) 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.
(UK) 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.
(programming) 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.
(US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

Synonyms

(rail transport): stopper

Antonyms

(rail transport): fast, express

Derived terms

Translations

a person who lives nearby

Dutch: plaatselijke bewoner (nl)
Finnish: paikkakuntalainen (fi)
Greek: ντόπιος (el) (ntópios) m
Hungarian: helyi (hu), helybeli (hu)

Italian: locale (it)
Russian: местный (ru) (m'éstnyj) m, туземец (ru) (tuz'ém'ec) m
Spanish: vecino (es) m, vecina (es) f
Turkish: yerli (tr), mahalleli (tr)

a branch of an organization

Finnish: paikallisyhdistys (fi), paikallisosasto (fi)

French: section (fr) f

a train that stops at all stations

Dutch: lokale trein (nl) m, lokaaltrein (nl) m, stoptrein (nl) m
Finnish: paikallisjuna (fi)

French: train omnibus (fr) m
Italian: locale (it)

(UK) the nearest bar

Dutch: stamcafé (nl) n, stamkroeg (nl) m and f

Finnish: paikallinen (fi), lähikuppila (fi)

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