Antonyms for locality
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : loh-kal-i-tee |
| Phonetic Transcription : loʊˈkæl ɪ ti |
Definition of locality
Origin :- 1620s, "fact of having a place," from French localité, from Late Latin localitatem (nominative localitas) "locality," from localis "belonging to a place" (see local). Meaning "a place or district" is from 1830.
- noun environment
- noun neighborhood
- Wagons halted in front of the locality, and were soon piled with spectators.
- Extract from : « Harriet, The Moses of Her People » by Sarah H. Bradford
- Simultaneously he received a vivid mental photograph of the locality.
- Extract from : « The Black Bag » by Louis Joseph Vance
- Mr. Cruncher was so bewildered that he could think of no locality but Temple Bar.
- Extract from : « A Tale of Two Cities » by Charles Dickens
- But then, the District Nurse was "always afraid" in that locality.
- Extract from : « Gloria and Treeless Street » by Annie Hamilton Donnell
- It had been years since he visited this locality, and the changes were many.
- Extract from : « Cap'n Warren's Wards » by Joseph C. Lincoln
- This custom, as in the South, was characteristic of the locality and period.
- Extract from : « The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia » by Frank Cousins
- The scenery of the locality is wild, and somewhat impressive.
- Extract from : « Afloat on the Ohio » by Reuben Gold Thwaites
- The house itself was not likely to vindicate the claim the locality denied.
- Extract from : « Roland Cashel » by Charles James Lever
- The remoteness of the locality would have robbed the statement of all interest.
- Extract from : « Notes on My Books » by Joseph Conrad
- Doubtless it was commonplace enough for that time and locality.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
Synonyms for locality
- adjacency
- ambiance
- area
- aura
- backdrop
- background
- belt
- block
- circumstances
- climate
- closeness
- conditions
- confines
- context
- contiguity
- district
- domain
- element
- encompassment
- entourage
- environs
- ghetto
- habitat
- hood
- jungle
- locale
- location
- medium
- milieu
- nearness
- neck of the woods
- neighborhood
- parish
- part
- place
- precinct
- propinquity
- proximity
- purlieus
- quarter
- region
- scene
- scenery
- section
- setting
- situation
- slum
- status
- stomping ground
- street
- suburb
- surroundings
- terrain
- territory
- tract
- turf
- vicinage
- vicinity
- ward
- zone
- zoo
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