Word Type

Noun

Adjective

Adjective

Adverb

The word "local" can be used as noun, adjective, adjective and adverb.

Word Relationships

Opposites (Antonyms)

distant express far away fast foreign general global national national remote worldwide

Derived Terms

Kharchia local Local Bubble Local Fluff Local Group Local Interstellar Cloud Local Volume all politics are local all politics is local ambilocal antilocal bilocal collocal duolocal equilocal extralocal glocal hyperlocal interlocal local administrative unit local anaesthetic local area network local attraction local authority local battery local board local cell local circuit local class local color local colour local council local derby local exchange carrier local gigantism local government local hero local lane local loop local maximum local mean sidereal time local mean time local minimum local option local preacher local radio local ring local sidereal time local solar time local taxi local time local-first localhost localise localish localism localist localite localitis locality localization localize locally localness localvore locavore locsiton magnetic local time matrilocal matrilocality microlocal multilocal neolocal nonlocal patrilocal patrilocality plurilocal quasilocal semilocal supralocal translocal ultralocal unlocal virilocal

Distinct From

afar away distant express far foreign global international national regional remote

Context

british computing journalism mathematics medicine programming rail transport slang us

Part Of (Holonyms)

federal global national statal supranational unional

Broader Terms (Hypernyms)

anaesthetic anaesthetic agent anesthetic anesthetic agent public transport

Type Of (IsA)

agent non geographical local organization public transport smaller than national

Related Terms

locant locate location locative locator locoregional locus

Related Terms

adjective area area definition around around here bar being being near buy city definition domestic dynamic from here general general term government here home home town identifier in area in town inhabitant lexical like like regional locally locate location locative locator locus native native inhabitant near near around near by near here near home nearby nearby area nearby pub nearest nearest shops neighborhood news newspaper organism place point program pub public house regional scope shops space term town trade union vicinity

Similar Terms

localised localist localized localized topical topical

Synonym Network

local anesthetic stopper topical

Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.