Meaning

7 senses

  1. A person who lives in or near a given place.

    It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists.

    Ortsmann, Einheimischer

    ме́стныйméstnyj, тузе́мецtuzémec

  2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

    I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

    Ortsverband

  3. (UK)One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.

    I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.

    Stammkneipe, Ortskneipe

  4. A locally scoped identifier.

    Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.

  5. (US, slang)An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.

  6. An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.

  7. (derogatory, slang)A Twitter user who is not a part of Stan Twitter.

More definitions
  • public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
  • anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body

Examples

928 sentences

  1. Tom works at a local hospital.

    Том працює у місцевій лікарні. — deniko

    ruТом работает в местной больнице. — odexed

    deTom arbeitet in einem örtlichen Krankenhaus. — wolfgangth

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  2. Tom worked at a local prison.

    Том працював у місцевій в'язниці. — Oleksandr_Tahayev

    ruТом работал в местной тюрьме. — odexed

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  3. Tom is the owner of a local restaurant.

    Том — власник місцевого ресторану. — deniko

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  4. Tom told me he checked out a book about Boston from the local library.

    Том сказав мені, що він взяв у місцевій бібліотеці книжку про Бостон. — oromashka

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  5. Tom works at a local restaurant.

    Том працює у місцевому ресторані. — deniko

    ruТом работает в местном ресторане. — marafon

    deTom arbeitet in einem örtlichen Restaurant. — wolfgangth

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Translations

8 languages
Русский
By meaning 1
a person who lives near a given place:
Deutsch
By meaning 3
a person who lives near a given place:
a branch of an organization:
(UK) the nearest bar:

Origin

From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also

From Middle English local, from Late Latin locālis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

plural: locals

Synonyms

5 synonyms
floor trader
Close in meaning
  • anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body:local anestheticlocal anaesthetictopical anesthetictopical anaesthetic

Antonyms

1 antonyms
express

Collocations

11 patterns
  • at a local
  • at the local
  • the local library
  • local library
  • of the local
  • local high school
  • local newspaper
  • local bar
  • local hospital
  • local high
  • is a local

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
lobotomylobsterlocalitylocalizationlocalizelocally

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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