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# locality

«locality» in Mova's school dictionary: **An area or neighbourhood; the place around a particular…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a locality, localities)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (formal) An area or neighbourhood; the place around a particular point. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#m1)

2) The exact place where something is found or happens, for example where a rock or plant was found. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A formal word used in geography, science reports and official texts. Geography lessons ask about «the local area» or «your locality»: its shops, parks and roads. In science, a «locality» is where a sample, fossil or animal was found. Everyday talk uses «area» or «neighbourhood» instead. Phrases: in the locality, the immediate locality.

### examples

- There are three schools in the locality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x1)
- We drew a map of our locality in geography. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x2)
- The fossil was found in a locality near the coast. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x3)
- Residents of the locality complained about the noise. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x4)
- Is there a library in this locality? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x5)
- The police searched the immediate locality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x6)
- The plant grows only in one small locality. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x7)
- Our locality has a park, a shop and a bus stop. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x8)
- They therefore attribute more importance than I to the exact form in which it is found and restrict it to the locality of birth. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/#x9)

### note

Countable: localities. Formal: in casual talk say «area», «neighbourhood» or «round here». Related: local (adjective), locate (verb), location (noun). Stress: lo-CAL-i-ty.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «locality» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/locality/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.