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local

[loh-kuhl] / ˈloʊ kəl /
ADJECTIVE
of a community, restricted to immediate area
Synonyms
STRONGEST
provincial regional
STRONG
district limited narrow neighborhood parish sectarian sectional territorial town vernacular
WEAK
bounded civic confined divisional geographical insular legendary parochial small-town
Antonyms
STRONG
broad broad-minded liberal unrestricted
WEAK
foreign nonnative
NOUN
person deeply rooted in community
Synonyms
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resident
STRONG
character inhabitant native
Antonyms
WEAK
alien foreigner nonnative

Example Sentences

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He hints at a possible production that’s local to his house, but it’s not actually been written yet.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 8, 2026

Footage released by local media showed a man inside the enclosure, recording Moo Deng with a tablet.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2026

A smattering of local Facebook groups against data centers, where members can chat and commiserate, have garnered thousands of community members in just a few months.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 8, 2026

We have no heirs and plan to leave our assets to an endowed scholarship at my alma mater, plus a smaller gift to a local university program.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 8, 2026

When the brothers showed the vases to local authorities, they were told that they were obviously imitations of the real things.

From "Shipwrecked!" by Martin W. Sandler