n., pl. -ties.

1. A particular neighborhood, place, or district: “Localities, even individual villages, developed their own languages” (Wall Street Journal).
2. The fact or quality of having position in space.

[French localité, from Late Latin locālitās, from locālis, local. See local.]

noun

1. A particular geographic area: locale, location, place. See place.
2. A part of the earth's surface: area, belt, district, neighborhood, quarter, region, tract, zone. Informal neck of the woods. See territory.
3. A surrounding site: area, neighborhood, vicinity. See near/far/distance, place.
4. A surrounding area: environment, environs, locale, neighborhood, precinct (used in plural), surroundings, vicinity. See near/far/distance, place.

(physics) See Bell's theorem.

IN BRIEF: n. - A surrounding or nearby region.

The cost of living in this locality is significantly higher than in others.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - lokalitet, sted, voksested

Nederlands (Dutch)
lokaliteit, plaats, ruimte, waar evenement plaatsvindt

Français (French)
n. - région, endroit

Deutsch (German)
n. - Ort, Fundort, Örtlichkeit

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - θέση, τόπος, τοποθεσία, περιοχή

Italiano (Italian)
località

Português (Portuguese)
n. - localidade (f)

Русский (Russian)
местонахождение, район, окрестности

Español (Spanish)
n. - localidad

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - lokalitet, plats, ställe, fyndplats, fyndort, trakt, ort, läge, (geografisk) belägenhet

中文（简体） (Chinese (Simplified))
地方, 位置, 所在

中文（繁體） (Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 地方, 位置, 所在

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 지방, 장소, 소재지, 발생지, 현장

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 場所, 産地, 地方, いること, 場所の感覚

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) المحليه كون الشئ محليا, مركز, موضع, موقع‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮מקום, שכונה, איזור, מיקום‬

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