localitylo‧cal‧i‧ty /ləʊˈkæləti $ loʊ-/ noun (plural localities) [countable] formal 
Examples
weather reports from several different localitiesin the locality Both sea fishing and freshwater angling are available in the locality.
ExamplesEXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
Thesaurus- In some localities the price of housing has risen by more than fifty percent in the last decade.
- Police officers are generally expected to live in the same locality in which they work.
- The city council is responsible for providing police protection in each locality.
- All are of single birds - 10 seen at the coast and eight in inland localities.
- Assume that R is a high-income locality and S is a low-income locality.
- Census takers then turn the difference into a mathematical formula and apply it to the overall locality.
- It is a major finding that the socio-demographic profiles of individual localities have become increasingly distinctive.
- Main classes are based upon a division of localities into continents.
- Maybe you have read of gold being found in a particular locality, but now you can see it.
- They are also regular at most suitable localities along the coast.
Longman Language Activatoran area of the world or a country► area
Collocations an area of land that is part of the world or part of a country: · Police think the crime was committed by someone from outside the area.area of: · There is a shortage of water in many areas of the world.· Hannah grew up in a beautiful area of Ireland.somebody's area (=the area where someone lives): · The cost of electricity has risen in our area.
► region a large area that is part of a country or of the world: · There have been reports of fighting in the region.region of: · For several years they lived in a remote region of Kenya.· Severe winter weather is expected in the northeast region of the country.
► zone an area that is in some way special or different from the areas around it, for example because it has a particular type of problem: · San Francisco and Tokyo are both located in earthquake zones.· Half of the community lies in a flood zone.war/battle zone: · UN troops are unwilling to enter the battle zone.
► country an area of land that is of a particular type or that is used for a particular activity, lived in by particular people etc: · The Midwest is largely farming country.· Not many people live in the hill country any more.
► locality formal a small area of a country: · In some localities the price of housing has risen by more than fifty percent in the last decade.· The city council is responsible for providing police protection in each locality.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► different
Word family· Efficiency With labour mobility, inefficiency can arise from fiscal spending in different localities.· Councils will set rents at a reasonable level, reflecting income levels in the different regions and localities.· Sounds, for example, are used to connote different localities: city traffic, a pub, a South Sea island.· How do place advertisements create meanings for different localities?· Until recently the situation was markedly different in those localities where incomer housing is dispersed among Shetlander housing.
► immediate· A local farmer had installed a grain-drier in the immediate locality which may have prevented any such manifestation from being heard.
► other· Any study of the Lower Volga in 1922 differs from investigations of other localities in another respect.· Cases were tried at other localities according to the geographical distribution of serious crime.· Since 1965 prospecting birds have also been noted regularly at other localities on the chalk and east of Hastings.· In addition there were breeding records or casual breeding season reports from 25 other localities in the same period.
► particular· Maybe you have read of gold being found in a particular locality, but now you can see it.· By the late-sixteenth century certain trades were already concentrated in particular localities within the West Midlands metalworking region.
► specific· The two notes referring to James Island suggest that he has just started to identify different species by their specific island localities.
WORD FAMILYnounlocallocationrelocationlocalelocalitylocalizationdislocationrelocationverblocatedislocaterelocatelocalizeadjectivelocallocalizeddislocatedadverblocally
a small area of a country, city etc SYN area: weather reports from several different localitiesin the locality Both sea fishing and freshwater angling are available in the locality.