LOCALITY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does locality mean? 

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

1. a surrounding or nearby region

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOCALITY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surrounding or nearby region

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

locality; neck of the woods; neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity

Context example:

I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods

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

section (a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locality"):

gold coast (a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living; usually along a coastal area)

'hood ((slang) a neighborhood)

place (a general vicinity)

proximity (the region close around a person or thing)

scenery (the appearance of a place)

Instance hyponyms:

Latin Quarter; Left Bank (the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life)

Montmartre (the highest point in Paris; famous for its associations with many artists)

Right Bank (the region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine)

Charlestown (a former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston; settled in 1629)

Derivation:

local (of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood)

 Context examples 

A locality or minor thoroughfare the address for which must be specified in relationship to a more major one.

(Double Dependent Locality, NCI Thesaurus)

Of or belonging to a restricted area or locality.

(Local, NCI Thesaurus)

The Professor had evidently noted the road we were to go, for he went on unhesitatingly; but, as for me, I was in quite a mixup as to locality.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When he remembered locality, it was too late.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

I saw the fascination of the locality.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He spoke of miners' meetings, where all the men of a locality came together and made the law and executed the law.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Such were my reflections during the first two or three days of my residence at Ingolstadt, which were chiefly spent in becoming acquainted with the localities and the principal residents in my new abode.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The atlas will not tell researchers why death rates are higher in certain localities than in others, but it will provide important clues for further in-depth studies into the causes and control of cancer.

(Atlas of Cancer Mortality in the United States, NCI Thesaurus)

The house was just such as I had pictured it from Sherlock Holmes’ succinct description, but the locality appeared to be less private than I expected. On the contrary, for a small street in a quiet neighbourhood, it was remarkably animated.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Every barn in the neighbourhood, every stone in the church, and every foot of the churchyard, had some association of its own, in my mind, connected with these books, and stood for some locality made famous in them.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)