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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; < LL locālitās. See local, -ity
lo·cal·i·ty   (lō-kāl'ĭ-tē)   
n.   pl. lo·cal·i·ties
  1. A particular neighborhood, place, or district: "Localities, even individual villages, developed their own languages" (Wall Street Journal).
  2. The fact or quality of having position in space.

[French localité, from Late Latin locālitās, from locālis, local; see local.]
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