Local
/ˈləʊkl̩/
noun
- A person who lives near a given place.
"It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
"I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
- A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
"The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."
- 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."
- 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."
adjective
- From or in a nearby location.
"We prefer local produce."
- (of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.
- (of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
- Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.
"The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia."
- Descended from an indigenous population.
"Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population."
adverb
Total: 7 Scrabble points
Word Validity & Sources
Dictionary data sourced from SOWPODS (178,691 words), combining TWL (Tournament Word List) and the Collins Scrabble Words dictionary. Definitions from Free Dictionary API and Wordnik.
About the Word "Local"
Local is a 5-letter word that scores 7 points in Scrabble and 10 points in Words With Friends.
Using "Local" in Word Games
When playing Scrabble or Words With Friends, "local" is a low-scoring word.