Localities

Part of speech: noun

Definitions

1. Geographical regions or spaces that are characterized by specific physical, cultural, or social traits
2. Defined areas that can include populations or communities distinguished by their unique characteristics and environments
3. Specific geographical areas identified by unique environmental or cultural features

Etymology: "Localities" is the plural of "locality," which comes from Late Latin "localitas," formed from Latin "localis" ("of a place"), itself from "locus" ("place"). The root "locus" also gives English "location," "local," and "locale." The Latin "-itas" suffix, meaning "state or quality of," turns the adjective into a noun for a quality of being in a particular place. English borrowed "locality" in the late 1300s or early 1400s, initially with the sense of a place's position or a spot where something is situated. Its later sense of a neighbourhood or district, the one the definition above reflects, developed over the following centuries as writers used it for a distinct area marked by its own character, which is why the plural now refers to regions defined by shared physical, cultural, or social features.

Synonyms: areas, regions, locations, places, sites

Antonyms: abstractions