locality

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: lo=cal=i=ty

CIDE DICTIONARY

locality, n. [L. localitas: cf. F. localité.].

•  The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.  [1913 Webster]

  "It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity
  and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality."  [1913 Webster]
•  Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.  [1913 Webster]
•  Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial.  Blackstone.  [1913 Webster]
•  The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

locality, n. (pl. -ies)
1 a district or neighbourhood.
2 the site or scene of something, esp. in relation to its surroundings.
3 the position of a thing; the place where it is.

Etymology

F localit{eacute} or LL localitas (as LOCAL)

THESAURUS

locality

abode, area, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, district, domain, emplacement, field, habitat, haunt, hole, home, latitude and longitude, lieu, locale, located, location, locus, native environment, neighborhood, pinpoint, place, placed, placement, point, position, positioned, province, range, region, section, sector, set, site, situate, situation, situs, sphere, spot, stamping ground, stead, territory, tract, vicinage, vicinity, whereabout, whereabouts, zone

ROGET THESAURUS

locality

Place

N place, lieu, spot, point, dot, niche, nook, hole, pigeonhole, compartment, premises, precinct, station, area, courtyard, square, abode, locality, ins and outs, every hole and corner, somewhere, in some place, wherever it may be, here and there, in various places, passim.

Situation

N situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude, footing, standing, standpoint, post, stage, aspect, attitude, posture, pose, environment, surroundings (location), circumjacence, place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts, ground, bearings, spot, topography, geography, chorography, map, situate, situated, local, topical, topographical, in situ, in loco, here and there, passim, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts, in place, here, there, in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.