localenoun [ C ]
uk/ləˈkɑːl/us/ləˈkɑːl/formalan area or place, especially one where something special happens, such as the action in a book or film:
The book's locale is a coastal town in the summer of 1958.
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Places and locations
- a place for everything and everything in its place idiom
- action
- core
- direction
- ground zero
- heartland
- location
- oxygen bar
- place
- point
- post
- scene
- set
- setting
- situation
- spot
- station
- stronghold
- the holy of holies
- venue
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Towns & regions: environments & localities