Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A place, especially with reference to a particular event.
- noun The scene or setting, as of a novel.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A place, spot, or locality; specifically, a site or scene, considered with reference to circumstances connected with it.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A place, spot, or location.
- noun A principle, practice, form of speech, or other thing of local use, or limited to a locality.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
place where somethinghappens . - noun computing The set of
settings related to thelanguage andregion in which a computerprogram executes. Examples are language, paper format, currency and time formats,character encoding etc.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the scene of any event or action (especially the place of a meeting)
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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And of course the term locale has to be thrown in there too -- has any term been overused as much as it, really?
MSDN Blogs 2008
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And of course the term locale has to be thrown in there too -- has any term been overused as much as it, really?
MSDN Blogs 2008
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I even recognized one building as a locale from the Linda Blair Roller Boogie movie.
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When we feel similar to a only child in locale but a x-mas tree, heres a list of
Adam Sandler Hanukkah Song - Video, Lyrics : emusicality.com admin 2009
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I even recognized one building as a locale from the Linda Blair Roller Boogie movie.
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For some reason, Janelle, despite losing her family and having nothing to hold her to our Earth, seems to take the change in locale and the sudden prospect of romance in stride.
REVIEW: 2008 Nebula Award Short Fiction Nominees [UPDATED] 2009
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When we feel similar to a only child in locale but a x-mas tree, heres a list of
Archive 2009-12-01 admin 2009
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My guess is maybe the confrontation after the Florida trip when Bella clues in to the happenings with Victoria (because Bella looks so worried), could have changed the locale from the school to the house in the movie.
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The locale is not so much the important thing; the ground support infrastructure, the capability, the techniques, the incredible behind-the-scenes team can not just simply be re-invented overnight in a few years.
Candid Comments on the Constellation Program - NASA Watch 2009
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Instead of the ambition-served-raw atmosphere of the 21 Club depicted in the first film, the locale is Shun Lee, an Upper West Side institution where decorative demon-eyed monkeys dangle above the bar like mute witnesses.
20 years later, greed's still good for Douglas in 'Wall Street' sequel 2010
BritSwag commented on the word locale
This is a strange word. And if anyone ever told me, "The locale of a crime" I would burst out laughing no matter how gruesome the crime.
November 1, 2011