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say it: LOH-kuhl
local is an adjective and noun meaning "relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area". It carries 5 recorded senses.
relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area
“local taxes”
“local authorities”
of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood
“local customs”
“local schools”
“the local citizens”
“a local point of view”
“local outbreaks of flu”
“a local bus line”
medicine
public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops
“the local seemed to take forever to get to New York”
anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for local come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.