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LOCALITY

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

A surrounding or nearby region

Example:

I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods

Synonyms:

locality; neck of the woods; neighborhood; neighbourhood; vicinity

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Hypernyms ("locality" is a kind of...):

section (a distinct region or subdivision of a territorial or political area or community or group of people)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "locality"):

gold coast (a rich neighborhood noted for expensive homes and luxurious living; usually along a coastal area)

'hood ((slang) a neighborhood)

place (a general vicinity)

proximity (the region close around a person or thing)

scenery (the appearance of a place)

Instance hyponyms:

Latin Quarter; Left Bank (the region of Paris on the southern bank of the Seine; a center of artistic and student life)

Montmartre (the highest point in Paris; famous for its associations with many artists)

Right Bank (the region of Paris on the north bank of the Seine)

Charlestown (a former town and present-day neighborhood of Boston; settled in 1629)

Derivation:

local (of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Your agent will easily recognise the locality, as it is the ancient chapel of the mansion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Lip-lip, excited by the chase and by the persistent nearness of his victim, forgot caution and locality.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Farther off were hills: not so lofty as those round Lowood, nor so craggy, nor so like barriers of separation from the living world; but yet quiet and lonely hills enough, and seeming to embrace Thornfield with a seclusion I had not expected to find existent so near the stirring locality of Millcote.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was not able to light on any map or work giving the exact locality of the Castle Dracula, as there are no maps of this country as yet to compare with our own Ordnance Survey maps; but I found that Bistritz, the post town named by Count Dracula, is a fairly well-known place.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

That locality was always vaguely disquieting, even in the broad glare of afternoon, and now I turned my head as though I had been warned of something behind.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)