FromMiddle English local Late Latin locālis ( “ belonging to a place ” ) , possibly also viaOld French local Latin locus ( “ a place ” ) .
Thering-theoretic senses Krull , who first referred to Noetherian commutative rings with a unique maximal ideal as "Stellenring" (Stellen ( “ place ” ) +ring [ 1] algebraic geometry , where local rings encode information about the behavior of curves (surfaces, etc.) at points; hence, describe "local" behavior.
local (comparative morelocal ,superlative mostlocal )
From or in a nearbylocation .Holonyms: statal national federal unional supranational global We preferlocal produce.
1918 W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell , chapter XLIV, inThe Mirror and the Lamp , Indianapolis, Ind.:The Bobbs-Merrill Company ,→OCLC page361 :Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part.[ …] [ …] local constabulary.
2012 December 1, “An internet of airborne things ”, inThe Economist 405 , number8813 , 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 thelocal matternet station for airborne dispatch via drone.
( computing , of aresource ) Connected directly to a particularcomputer ,processor , etc.; able to beaccessed offline .Antonym: remote local disk drive
local file
The panel shows bothlocal and remote sites.
( computing , of avariable oridentifier ) scope (eitherlexical ordynamic ); only accessible within a certain portion of aprogram .Antonym: global ( mathematics , not comparable , of a condition or property) ( topology ) open neighborhood of every point.A Hausdorff space satisfyinglocal compactness need not be (globally) compact!
( topology ) arbitrarily small open neighborhoods of every point.( group theory , of a property of an infinite group) ( mathematics , not comparable , of a condition or property) Detectable from the behavior of substructures understood to be "near points;" in particular:( algebra , algebraic geometry , of a propertyP {\displaystyle P} ring R {\displaystyle R} R {\displaystyle R} module M {\displaystyle M} ) P {\displaystyle P} R {\displaystyle R} M {\displaystyle M} P {\displaystyle P} localization R p {\displaystyle R_{\mathfrak {p}}} M p {\displaystyle M_{\mathfrak {p}}} prime ideals p {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {p}}} R {\displaystyle R} P {\displaystyle P} R m {\displaystyle R_{\mathfrak {m}}} M m {\displaystyle M_{\mathfrak {m}}} maximal ideals m {\displaystyle {\mathfrak {m}}} R {\displaystyle R} ( group theory , of a property of a finite group) normalizers of the nontrivialp-subgroups .( algebra , of a ring) ( medicine ) organism .Synonym: topical local lesion
The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied onlylocal anesthesia.
Descended from an indigenous population.Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by thelocal population.
of a nearby location
Albanian:lokal (sq) Arabic:مَحَلِّيّ ( maḥalliyy ) Armenian:տեղական (hy) ( teġakan ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:ܕܘܼܟܬܵܢܵܝܵܐ m ( duktānāyā ) Azerbaijani: yerli (az) ,məhəlli Belarusian:ме́сны ( mjésny ) ,мясцо́вы ( mjascóvy ) ,тутэ́йшы ( tutéjšy ) ,лака́льны ( lakálʹny ) ,ляка́льны ( ljakálʹny ) Bengali:আঞ্চলিক (bn) ( ancolik ) Bulgarian:ме́стен (bg) ( mésten ) ,лока́лен (bg) ( lokálen ) Catalan:local (ca) Chinese:Cantonese:本地 ( bun2 dei6 ) Mandarin:本地 (zh) ( běndì ) ,當地 / 当地 (zh) ( dāngdì ) Cornish:leel Czech:místní (cs) Danish:lokal Dutch:lokaal (nl) ,plaatselijk (nl) Esperanto:loka Estonian:kohalik lokaalne (et) Fala:local Finnish:paikallinen (fi) ,lähi- (fi) French:local (fr) Galician:local (gl) ,do país Georgian:ადგილობრივი ( adgilobrivi ) German:lokal (de) ,örtlich (de) Greek:τοπικός (el) ( topikós ) Ancient:τοπικός ( topikós ) ,ἔντοπος ( éntopos ) Hebrew:מְקוֹמִי (he) ( m'komí ) Hindi:स्थानीय (hi) ( sthānīya ) ,क्षेत्रीय ( kṣetrīya ) Hungarian:helyi (hu) Icelandic:staðbundinn (is) Ido:lokala (io) Irish:logánta áitiúil Italian:locale (it) Japanese:現地 (ja) ( げんち, genchi ) Kazakh:жергілікті ( jergılıktı ) Korean:지방의 (ko) ( jibang'ui ) Kyrgyz:жергиликтүү (ky) ( jergiliktüü ) Latin:locālis Latvian:vietējs lokāls Lithuanian:vietinis (lt) ,lokalinis Luxembourgish:lokal Macedonian:ме́стен ( mésten ) ,ло́кален ( lókalen ) Malay:setempat lokal tempatan (ms) Malayalam:തദ്ദേശ ( taddēśa ) Maori:ā-rohe tata paetata Norwegian:Bokmål:lokal (no) Old English:stōwlīċ Persian:محلی (fa) ( mahalli ) Polish:lokalny (pl) ,miejscowy (pl) ,tutejszy (pl) Portuguese:local (pt) Romanian:local (ro) Russian:ме́стный (ru) ( méstnyj ) ,лока́льный (ru) ( lokálʹnyj ) Scottish Gaelic:ionadail Serbo-Croatian:Cyrillic:ме̏снӣ мје̏снӣ ло̀ка̄лан Roman:mȅsnī (sh) ,mjȅsnī (sh) ,lòkālan (sh) Slovak:miestny Slovene:lokalen krajeven Spanish:local (es) ,lugareño (es) m Swedish: lokal (sv) Tagalog:pampook pandito Tajik:маҳаллӣ (tg) ( mahalli ) Thai:ส่วนท้องถิ่น ( sùan-tóng-tìn ) ,ท้องถิ่น (th) ( tóng-tìn ) Turkish:yerel (tr) ,lokal (tr) ,mahallî (tr) ,yöresel (tr) ,mevzii (tr) Ukrainian:місце́вий (uk) ( miscévyj ) ,туте́шній ( tutéšnij ) ,лока́льний ( lokálʹnyj ) Uzbek:mahalliy (uz) Vietnamese:địa phương (vi) (地方 Welsh:lleol (cy) Yiddish:היגע ( hige ) ,לאָקאַל ( lokal ) ,אָרטיק ( ortik )
computing: connected directly
Chinese:Mandarin:本地 (zh) ( běndì )
computing: having limited scope
math: applying to a limited space
medicine: of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism
local (plural locals
A person who lives near a given place.It's easy to tell thelocals from the tourists.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail , page66 :Taunton station is busy - even more so when the inbound working of my Bristol train arrives, laden with the usual mix of 'staycationers' andlocals .
A branch of a nationwide organization such as atrade union .I'm in the TWU, too.Local 6.
1990 February 4, Pam Mitchell, “Pro-Union And Queer”, inGay Community News , volume17 , number29 , page18 :Citing the risk involved with being out as a gay personand a union activist while simultaneously dealing with racism, Susan notes that there are no out gays or lesbians of color in herlocal , though its membership is about 80 percent people of color.
( rail transport ) Clipping oflocal train .Synonym: stopper Antonyms: fast express The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take alocal .
( British ) public house orbar .I got barred from mylocal , so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.
2010 Nothing ”, inScience & Faith , performed by The Script:As they take me to mylocal down the street.
( programming ) locally scoped identifier .Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value oflocals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.
2012 Professional jQuery , page25 :Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereaslocals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.
( US , slang , journalism ) news relating to the place where thenewspaper is published.( colloquial , medicine ) Clipping oflocal anesthetic .1989 Road House , page39 :Well, Mr. Dalton, you may add nine staples to your dossier of thirty‐one broken bones, two bullet wounds, nine puncture wounds and four steel screws. That’s an estimate, of course. I’ll give you alocal .
( finance ) independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf ofinvestors .Synonym: floor trader 2009 Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management , page316 :On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers andlocals .
( fandom slang , derogatory ) Twitter user who is not a part ofStan Twitter .2018 , Max Ghasserani, "Spill The Tea On A Sister Skinny Legend",The Investigator (Green Valley High School, Henderson, NV), October 2018,page 25 :Her camera roll is filled with pictures and videos of her idol, she doesn't let any of her friends see her account because "nolocals allowed", [ …] 2018 October 16, Fergal Smiddy, “The 6 Types of People You Meet on Twitter”, inUniversity Express , University College Cork, Ireland,page11 :Locals are characterised by their seeming lack of involvement or ~expertise~ on the platform.
2019 , Avin Abelardo, "Deep Dive Into The World Of Troll Twitter Memes",Echoes (University of the Philippines), February/March 2019,page 60 :Heck, evenlocals sometimes use GIFs of her when they feel like tweeting with taste. For more quotations using this term, seeCitations:local . a person who lives near a given place
Armenian:տեղացի (hy) ( teġacʻi ) Assyrian Neo-Aramaic:ܕܘܼܟܬܵܢܵܝܵܐ m ( duktānāyā ) ,ܐܲܬܪܵܢܵܝܵܐ m ( atrānāyā ) Chinese: Cantonese: 本地人 ( bun2 dei6 jan4 ) Mandarin:本地人 (zh) ( běndìrén ) Dutch:plaatselijke bewoner Esperanto:lokano Finnish:paikkakuntalainen (fi) Georgian:please add this translation if you can German:Ortsmann m , Einheimischer (de) m Greek: ντόπιος (el) m ( ntópios ) Ancient Greek: ἐγχώριος m ( enkhṓrios ) Hindi: स्थानीय (hi) ( sthānīya ) ,क्षेत्रीय ( kṣetrīya ) Hungarian:helyi (hu) ,helybeli (hu) Icelandic:heimamaður m Italian: locale (it) Macedonian:ме́штанин m ( méštanin ) Polish: miejscowy (pl) m , miejscowa (pl) f , tutejszy (pl) m , tutejsza f Portuguese: habitante local ,morador local Russian:ме́стный (ru) m ( méstnyj ) ,тузе́мец (ru) m ( tuzémec ) Spanish: vecino (es) m , vecina (es) f , lugareño (es) m Swedish: lokalinvånare (sv) c , lokalbo (sv) c Turkish: yerli (tr) ,mahalleli (tr) Urdu:مقامی Yiddish:היגער ( higer )
a branch of an organization
local (comparative morelocal ,superlative mostlocal )
In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.It's never been more important to buylocal .
2016 Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy , page122 :Coca-Cola, for example, shifted its stance, unsuccessfully, between “think global, act global” and “think local, actlocal ” during the tenures of three different CEOs in the late 1990s and early 2000s.
Terms derived fromlocal (all parts of speech)
Terms etymologically related tolocal (all parts of speech)
“local ”, inWebster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary G. & C. Merriam ,1913 ,→OCLC William Dwight Whitney ,Benjamin E[li] Smith , editors (1911 ), “local ”, inThe Century Dictionary [ … ] The Century Co. ,→OCLC “local ”, inOneLook Dictionary Search . local (epicene plural locales
Alternative form ofllocal Borrowed fromLate Latin locālis Latin locus [ 1]
local m or f (masculine and feminine plural locals
local local m (plural locals
property ,premises ;business ,storefront FromEnglish local
local
( Hong Kong Cantonese or overseas Mandarin ) local ( people, as opposed to foreigners ) FromLate Latin locālis Latin locus
IPA (key ) : /loˈkal/ Rhymes:-al Syllabification:lo‧cal local (plural locais
local local m (plural locais
premises ;rooms Valeš, Miroslav (2021 )Diccionariu de A Fala: lagarteiru, mañegu, valverdeñu (web) [1] 2022 ,→ISBN Borrowed fromLate Latin locālis Latin locus
local (feminine locale masculine plural locaux feminine plural locales
local Antonym: global local m (plural locaux
room Borrowed fromLate Latin locālis Latin locus
local m or f (plural locais
local local m (plural locais
premises ;rooms “local ” inDIGALEGO - Dicionario de Galego , Ir Indo 2004, Xunta de Galicia 2013. “local ”, inDicionario da Real Academia Galega Royal Galician Academy ,2012 –2025 Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández ,Ernesto Xosé González Seoane ,María Álvarez de la Granja , editors (2003 –2018 ), “local ”, inTesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela:Instituto da Lingua Galega This entry needs pronunciation information. If you are familiar with theIPA then please add some!
local m (feminine singular locala masculine plural locai feminine plural locales
local local (plural locai
local local
local local m
room Borrowed fromLate Latin locālis Latin locus lugar
Rhymes:-al -aw Hyphenation:lo‧cal local m or f (plural locais
local local m (plural locais
premises ,rooms site place ,location Borrowed fromFrench local Late Latin localis surface analysis ,loc -al
local m or n (feminine singular locală masculine plural locali feminine and neuter plural locale
local Borrowed fromLate Latin locālis Latin locus lugar
IPA (key ) : /loˈkal/ [loˈkal] Rhymes:-al Syllabification:lo‧cal local m or f (masculine and feminine plural locales
local local m (plural locales
premises ,rooms ( Mexico ) store or other retail unit in ashopping center 
