Local | Mean of local in English Dictionary

/ˈloʊkəl/

• relating to or occurring in a particular area, city, or town
1. local news
2. a local custom
3. Are you making a local (telephone) call or a long-distance one?
4. a local newspaper
5. local and state roads
• located or living nearby
1. We had dinner at a local restaurant.
2. The police have arrested a local man for the crime.
3. This is a local shop for local people: we don't get many outsiders here.
• making all the stops on a route
1. She took the local bus.

• involving or affecting only a small area of the body
1. a local infection
2. local anesthesia
• Noun
• a person who lives in a particular area, city, or town
1. The restaurant is popular with (the) locals.
• a train or bus that makes all of the stops along its route
• a local part of a labor union
1. He's the president of the union local at the factory.
• a pub that is near the place where you live
1. my mates down at the local