"locality" meaning in English

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Noun

IPA: /loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/ [General-American], /ləʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/ [Received-Pronunciation] Audio: En-us-locality.ogg [US] Forms: localities [plural]
Rhymes: -ælɪti Etymology: From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local + -ity. Etymology templates: {{der|en|fr|localité}} French localité, {{der|en|LL.|-}} Late Latin, {{m|la|localitas}} localitas, {{suffix|en|local|ity}} local + -ity Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)
  1. The fact or quality of having a position in space. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (fact or quality of having a position in space): местоположение (mestopoloženie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), sijaitseminen (Finnish), lokalitás (Hungarian), taiwhanga (Maori)
    Sense id: en-locality-en-noun-WBg4vEHl Disambiguation of 'fact or quality of having a position in space': 85 2 4 1 2 2 2 3
  2. The features or surroundings of a particular place. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (features or surroundings of a particular place): околности (okolnosti) [feminine, plural] (Bulgarian), ympäristö (Finnish), seutu (Finnish), région (French), τοποθεσία (topothesía) [feminine] (Greek), Jäajent [feminine] (Plautdietsch)
    Sense id: en-locality-en-noun-hsBAyTvj Disambiguation of 'features or surroundings of a particular place': 3 82 3 1 2 4 2 4
  3. (uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Computing, Mathematics Translations (maths, computing: condition of being local): paikallisuus (Finnish), lokalność [feminine] (Polish)
    Sense id: en-locality-en-noun-1Zqlx2oc Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, physical-sciences, sciences Disambiguation of 'maths, computing: condition of being local': 6 3 67 5 4 4 3 7
  4. The situation or position of an object. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (situation or position of an object): sijainti (Finnish), paikka (Finnish), θέση (thési) [feminine] (Greek), tūnga (Maori), wāhi (Maori), lokalitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), lokalitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), lokalitet [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-locality-en-noun-eQNQMaI6 Disambiguation of 'situation or position of an object': 3 1 3 87 1 2 1 2
  5. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (site of certain activity, neighbourhood): lokalita [feminine] (Czech), paikkakunta (Finnish), paikka (Finnish), quartier [masculine] (French), voisinage [masculine] (French), γειτονιά (geitoniá) [feminine] (Greek), പ്രദേശം (pradēśaṁ) (Malayalam), taiwhanga (Maori), lokalitet [masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), lokalitet [masculine] (Norwegian Nynorsk), Jäajent [feminine] (Plautdietsch), sąsiedztwo [neuter] (Polish), localidade [feminine] (Portuguese), vecindario [masculine] (Spanish), vecindarios [masculine, plural] (Spanish), localidad (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-locality-en-noun-MdGDafY1 Disambiguation of 'site of certain activity, neighbourhood': 6 3 8 2 67 2 5 6
  6. Limitation to a county, district, or place. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (limitation to a county, district, or place): paikkakunta (Finnish), paikka (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-locality-en-noun-XICLThG~ Disambiguation of 'limitation to a county, district, or place': 1 2 1 1 8 84 1 2
  7. (geography) A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Geography Translations (built-up area (city, town or village)): localité (english: small town or village) [feminine] (French), Ortschaft [feminine] (German), miejscowość [feminine] (Polish), населённый пункт (naseljónnyj punkt) [masculine] (Russian), tätort [common-gender] (Swedish), насе́лений пункт (nasélenyj punkt) [masculine] (Ukrainian)
    Sense id: en-locality-en-noun-1jBHeOfJ Topics: geography, natural-sciences Disambiguation of 'built-up area (city, town or village)': 4 1 1 1 8 3 78 3
  8. (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places. Tags: countable, dated, uncountable Categories (topical): Phrenology Translations (phrenology: perceptive faculty): sijainti (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-locality-en-noun-iEVqAcqE Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English terms suffixed with -ity Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 4 20 2 20 4 15 25 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 12 4 17 3 16 6 12 32 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ity: 9 4 11 5 14 7 9 40 Topics: human-sciences, medicine, phrenology, psychology, sciences Disambiguation of 'phrenology: perceptive faculty': 4 2 5 1 4 3 4 77
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: type locality

Inflected forms

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          "code": "fr",
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          "word": "voisinage"
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          "_dis1": "6 3 8 2 67 2 5 6",
          "code": "el",
          "lang": "Greek",
          "roman": "geitoniá",
          "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "γειτονιά"
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          "code": "ml",
          "lang": "Malayalam",
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          "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
          "word": "പ്രദേശം"
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          "code": "pl",
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          "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
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          "code": "pt",
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          "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
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          "code": "es",
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          "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
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        [
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        [
          "town",
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        [
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          "code": "fr",
          "english": "small town or village",
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          "tags": [
            "feminine"
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          "word": "localité"
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          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "Ortschaft"
        },
        {
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
          "tags": [
            "feminine"
          ],
          "word": "miejscowość"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 1 1 1 8 3 78 3",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "naseljónnyj punkt",
          "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "населённый пункт"
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          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
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          "word": "tätort"
        },
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          "code": "uk",
          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "nasélenyj punkt",
          "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
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          "word": "насе́лений пункт"
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        "The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places."
      ],
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          "phrenology"
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          "perceptive"
        ],
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          "faculty",
          "faculty"
        ],
        [
          "remember",
          "remember"
        ],
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          "relative"
        ]
      ],
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        "(dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places."
      ],
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        "countable",
        "dated",
        "uncountable"
      ],
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        "human-sciences",
        "medicine",
        "phrenology",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
      ],
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        {
          "_dis1": "4 2 5 1 4 3 4 77",
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          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "phrenology: perceptive faculty",
          "word": "sijainti"
        }
      ]
    }
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      "ipa": "/loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/",
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        "General-American"
      ]
    },
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      "ipa": "/ləʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
      ]
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-ælɪti"
    },
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      "audio": "En-us-locality.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/45/En-us-locality.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ],
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    }
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}
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    "English countable nouns",
    "English entries with incorrect language header",
    "English entries with language name categories using raw markup",
    "English lemmas",
    "English nouns",
    "English terms derived from French",
    "English terms derived from Late Latin",
    "English terms suffixed with -ity",
    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns",
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    }
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      "name": "der"
    },
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        "3": "-"
      },
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      },
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        "plural"
      ]
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          "surroundings"
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
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        "English terms with quotations",
        "English uncountable nouns",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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        "en:Mathematics"
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        {
          "ref": "2004, Randall Hyde, Write Great Code, Volume 1: Understanding the Machine, page 154",
          "text": "This shows temporal locality of reference in action because the CPU accesses i at three points in a short time period. This program also exhibits spatial locality of reference.",
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        }
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        "The condition of being local."
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          "mathematics"
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          "computing",
          "computing#Noun"
        ],
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        "(uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local."
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        "uncountable"
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        "computing",
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        "mathematics",
        "natural-sciences",
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        "sciences"
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      ],
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          "situation"
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          "position",
          "position"
        ],
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          "object",
          "object"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood."
      ],
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        [
          "area",
          "area"
        ],
        [
          "district",
          "district"
        ],
        [
          "site",
          "site"
        ],
        [
          "activities",
          "activity"
        ],
        [
          "neighbourhood",
          "neighbourhood"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "Limitation to a county, district, or place."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "en:Geography"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A built-up area, i.e. a city, town or village"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "geography",
          "geography"
        ],
        [
          "built-up",
          "built-up"
        ],
        [
          "area",
          "area"
        ],
        [
          "city",
          "city"
        ],
        [
          "town",
          "town"
        ],
        [
          "village",
          "village"
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      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "geography",
        "natural-sciences"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English dated terms",
        "en:Phrenology"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "phrenology",
          "phrenology"
        ],
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          "perceptive",
          "perceptive"
        ],
        [
          "faculty",
          "faculty"
        ],
        [
          "remember",
          "remember"
        ],
        [
          "relative",
          "relative"
        ]
      ],
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        "(dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "dated",
        "uncountable"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "human-sciences",
        "medicine",
        "phrenology",
        "psychology",
        "sciences"
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    {
      "ipa": "/loʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "General-American"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ləʊˈkæl.ɪ.ti/",
      "tags": [
        "Received-Pronunciation"
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    {
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    },
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "mestopoloženie",
      "sense": "fact or quality of having a position in space",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "местоположение"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "fact or quality of having a position in space",
      "word": "sijaitseminen"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "fact or quality of having a position in space",
      "word": "lokalitás"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "fact or quality of having a position in space",
      "word": "taiwhanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "okolnosti",
      "sense": "features or surroundings of a particular place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "околности"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "features or surroundings of a particular place",
      "word": "ympäristö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "features or surroundings of a particular place",
      "word": "seutu"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "features or surroundings of a particular place",
      "word": "région"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "topothesía",
      "sense": "features or surroundings of a particular place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "τοποθεσία"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "features or surroundings of a particular place",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Jäajent"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "maths, computing: condition of being local",
      "word": "paikallisuus"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "maths, computing: condition of being local",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lokalność"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "situation or position of an object",
      "word": "sijainti"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "situation or position of an object",
      "word": "paikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "thési",
      "sense": "situation or position of an object",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "θέση"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "situation or position of an object",
      "word": "tūnga"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "situation or position of an object",
      "word": "wāhi"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "situation or position of an object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lokalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "situation or position of an object",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lokalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "situation or position of an object",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "lokalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "lokalita"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "word": "paikkakunta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "word": "paikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "quartier"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "voisinage"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "geitoniá",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "γειτονιά"
    },
    {
      "code": "ml",
      "lang": "Malayalam",
      "roman": "pradēśaṁ",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "word": "പ്രദേശം"
    },
    {
      "code": "mi",
      "lang": "Maori",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "word": "taiwhanga"
    },
    {
      "code": "nb",
      "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lokalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "nn",
      "lang": "Norwegian Nynorsk",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "lokalitet"
    },
    {
      "code": "pdt",
      "lang": "Plautdietsch",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Jäajent"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "sąsiedztwo"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "localidade"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "vecindario"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "vecindarios"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "site of certain activity, neighbourhood",
      "word": "localidad"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "limitation to a county, district, or place",
      "word": "paikkakunta"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "limitation to a county, district, or place",
      "word": "paikka"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "english": "small town or village",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "localité"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "Ortschaft"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "miejscowość"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "naseljónnyj punkt",
      "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "населённый пункт"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
      "tags": [
        "common-gender"
      ],
      "word": "tätort"
    },
    {
      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "nasélenyj punkt",
      "sense": "built-up area (city, town or village)",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "насе́лений пункт"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "phrenology: perceptive faculty",
      "word": "sijainti"
    }
  ],
  "word": "locality"
}

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