1. local(n = noun.artifact) - public transport consisting of a bus or train that stops at all stations or stops; "the local seemed to take forever to get to New York"
Antonym: express
2. local(n = noun.artifact) local anaesthetic, local anesthetic, topical anaesthetic, topical anesthetic - anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body;
1. local(a = adj.all) - relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area; "local authorities"; "local taxes"
Antonym: national
2. local(a = adj.pert) - of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood; "a local bus line"; "a local point of view"; "local customs"; "local outbreaks of flu"; "local schools"; "the local citizens"
Derived form noun locality1
3. local(a = adj.all) - affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; "local anesthesia"
Antonym: general
Of or pertaining to a particular place, or to a definite region or portion of space; restricted to one place or region;
1. A train which receives and deposits passengers or freight along the line of the road; a train for the accommodation of a certain district.
2. In newspaper cant, an item of news relating to the place where the paper is published. [1913 Webster]
3. A train or bus which stops at all stations along a line, as contrasted with an
local, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 belonging to or existing in a particular place or places.
2 peculiar to or only encountered in a particular place or places.
3 of or belonging to the neighbourhood (the local doctor).
4 of or affecting a part and not the whole, esp. of the body (local pain; a local anaesthetic).
5 in regard to place.
--n. a local person or thing, esp.:
1 an inhabitant of a particular place regarded with reference to that place.
2 a local train, bus, etc.
3 (often prec. by the) Brit. colloq. a local public house.
4 a local anaesthetic.
5 US a local branch of a trade union.
Idiom:
local authority Brit. an administrative body in local government. local Derby see DERBY. local government a system of administration of a county, district, parish, etc., by the elected representatives of those who live there. local option (or veto) esp. US a system whereby the inhabitants of a district may prohibit the sale of alcoholic liquor there. local preacher a Methodist lay person authorized to conduct services in a particular circuit. local time
1 time measured from the sun's transit over the meridian of a place.
2 the time as reckoned in a particular place, esp. with reference to an event recorded there. local train a train stopping at all the stations on its route.
Derivative:
locally adv. localness n.
Etymology:
ME f. OF f. LL localis f. L locus place
N region, sphere, ground, soil, area, field, realm, hemisphere, quarter, district, beat, orb, circuit, circle, reservation, pale, compartment, department, clearing, (property) &c 780 (Government), 1 arena, precincts, enceinte, walk, march, patch, plot, parcel, inclosure, close, field, court, enclave, reserve, preserve, street, clime, climate, zone, meridian, latitude, biosphere, lithosphere, territorial, local, parochial, provincial, regional.
N situation, position, locality, locale, status, latitude and longitude, footing, standing, standpoint, post, stage, aspect, attitude, posture, pose, environment, surroundings (location), circumjacence, place, site, station, seat, venue, whereabouts, ground, bearings, spot, topography, geography, chorography, map, situate, situated, local, topical, topographical, in situ, in loco, here and there, passim, hereabouts, thereabouts, whereabouts, in place, here, there, in such and such surroundings, in such and such environs, in such and such entourage, amidst such and such surroundings, amidst such and such environs, amidst such and such entourage.