locale

Noun

Meaning

A place, spot, or location.

A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

locus venue hippodrome hood sida place point area country position region community site stage district
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Antonyms

distance advantage discharge chaos blend aggregate
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Hypernyms

scene

Phrases with the word

locale-aware distant locale locale theory arty nyc locale carnaby street's locale spatial locale

Examples

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it. Elizabeth Bowen

We all think that fate has dealt us a wretched sort of lot in life, and that others must be better. [...] I presume that in the heaven of the Blessèd there are those who believe that the advantages of that locale are much exaggerated by theologists, who have never been there themselves. Jorge Luis Borges

All the privileged can travel, see different worlds; not everyone can. I think it is important for people to have an interesting locale nearby. Zaha Hadid

Communism excited intellectuals in a way that neither Hitler nor (especially) liberal democracy could hope to match. Communism was exotic in locale and heroic in scale. Tony Judt

A 1989 graduate of the now-closed Queen of Peace High School in North Arlington, a small middle-class municipality just one locale south of her hometown, Paone actually is much more than a thespian turned writer/director. Source: Internet

And the locale was moved from the Mare Crisium to the most spectacular of all lunar craters, Tycho —easily visible to the naked eye from Earth at Full Moon." Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

local zone local-level government local-level governments locale of crime locale theory locale-aware