locale
Use Locale in a sentence
noun
1.
a place or locality, especially with reference to events or circumstances connected with it: to move to a warmer locale.
2.
the scene or setting, as of a novel, play, or motion picture: The locale is a small Kansas town just before World War I.
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World English Dictionary
locale (ləʊˈkɑːl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| a place or area, esp with reference to events connected with it | |
| [C18: from French local (n use of adj); see | |
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Locale
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
Etymonline
Word Origin & History
locale
1772, from Fr. local, noun use of local (adj.), from L. locus "place." Spelling with -e is probably based on morale.
"The word's right to exist depends upon the question whether the two indispensable words locality & scene give all the shades of meaning required, or whether something intermediate is useful." [Fowler]
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Computing Dictionary
locale definition
programmingA geopolitical place or area, especially in the context of configuring an operating system or application program with its character sets, date and time formats, currency formats etc.
Locales are significant for internationalisation and localisation.
(1999-06-09)
Example sentences
Setting is, well, setting-meaning the trip's locale as well as cultural context.
Besides reading the histories, take a moment to get in touch with the ethos of the locale.
Education is so mandatory that you see nomads walk for hours to attend the nearest school in their locale.
The different colloquialisms that develop are purely locale-based and there's nothing officialdom can do about it.
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