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Local   /lˈoʊkəl/   Listen
Local

adjective
1.
Relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area.  "Local authorities"  Antonym: national.
2.
Of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood.  "Local schools" , "The local citizens" , "A local point of view" , "Local outbreaks of flu" , "A local bus line"
3.
Affecting only a restricted part or area of the body.  Antonym: general.
noun
1.
Public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops.  Antonym: express.
2.
Anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body.  Synonyms: local anaesthetic, local anesthetic, topical anaesthetic, topical anesthetic.



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"Local" Quotes from Famous Books



... tuberculous inflammation of the knee-joint was either of a general or a local nature. The general treatment was designed to strengthen and nourish, and will continue to ...
— Prof. Koch's Method to Cure Tuberculosis Popularly Treated • Max Birnbaum
... take him up. After they had gone on I paced off the hole, just for fun. It was twelve feet square by about six feet deep! Then I walked on down toward the water front, and talked with all the storekeepers. They do a queer business. All these goods we see around came out here on consignment. The local storekeepers have a greater or lesser share and sell mainly on commission. Since they haven't any adequate storehouses, and can't get any put up again, they sell the stuff mainly at auction and get rid of it as quickly as possible. That's why some things are so cheap they can make pavements of them ...
— Gold • Stewart White
... of the farmhouse, close to the ceiling, hung an old picture which had been painted by some local artist a hundred years before their time. It represented a city surrounded by a high wall, above which could be seen the roofs and gables of many buildings, some of which were red farmhouses with turf roofs. Others were white manor houses with slate roofs. Others, again, ...
— Jerusalem • Selma Lagerlof
... hurry thither in quest of the requisite permission for his evening's entertainment; six several times he found the official was abroad. Leon Berthelini began to grow quite a familiar figure in the streets of Castel-le-Gachis; he became a local celebrity, and was pointed out as "the man who was looking for the Commissary." Idle children attached themselves to his footsteps, and trotted after him back and forward between the hotel and the office. Leon might try as he liked; he might roll cigarettes, ...
— New Arabian Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson
... so little confidence that a hundred yards further on I stopped another wayfarer, who, however, had no knowledge of any Hogarth but a local laundry of that name, and could not say ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. CL, April 26, 1916 • Various


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