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lo·cal·i·ty

   [loh-kal-i-tee]
noun, plural -ties.
1.
a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there: They moved to another locality.
2.
the state or fact of being local or having a location: the locality that every material object must have.
Origin:
1620–30; < Late Latin locālitās. See local, -ity

Can be confused: local, locale, locality, location.
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locality
1620s, "fact of having a place," from Fr. localité, from L.L. localitatem (nom. localitas) "locality," from localis "belonging to a place" (see local). Meaning "a place or district" is from 1830.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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