/ ləʊˈkæləti; NAmE loʊ-/ noun ( pl. -ies ) ( formal )
1.
the area that surrounds the place you are in or are talking about
SYN vicinity :
people living in the locality of the power station
There is no airport in the locality .
2.
the place where sb/sth exists :
We talk of the brain as the locality of thought.
The birds are found in over 70 different localities.
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WORD ORIGIN
early 17th cent.: from French localité or late Latin localitas , from localis relating to a place, from Latin locus place.