LOCALE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locale mean? 

• LOCALE (noun)
  The noun LOCALE has 1 sense:

1. the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)

  Familiarity information: LOCALE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCALE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

locale; locus; venue

Hypernyms ("locale" is a kind of...):

scene (the place where some action occurs)

Derivation:

localize (locate)

localize (identify the location or place of)

 Context examples 

A neighborhood or locale that provides access to healthy foods and healthy eating alternatives.

(Healthy Food Environment, NCI Thesaurus)

The researchers' findings also contradict the idea that a commonly used index of vegetation greenness is a useful cue for migration timing in some locales.

(Seasonality of bird migration responds to environmental cues, NSF)

Many have looked for the remains of the mythical locale, but nobody has come close to actually finding it and researchers claiming to have found it in the past have all ultimately been proven wrong.

(Researchers Claim to Have Found Mythical City of Atlantis in Spain, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)