Local
/ˈləʊkl̩/
Last Updated: January 2, 2026 at 12:30 PM
Scrabble:7 ptsWWF:10 pts5 letters
Definition of Local
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
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