vicinity, locality, neighborhood, neighbourhood, neck of the woods
(noun) a surrounding or nearby region; “the plane crashed in the vicinity of Asheville”; “it is a rugged locality”; “he always blames someone else in the immediate neighborhood”; “I will drop in on you the next time I am in this neck of the woods”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)
The fact or quality of having a position in space.
The features or surroundings of a particular place.
(uncountable, maths, computing) The condition of being local.
The situation or position of an object.
An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
Limitation to a county, district, or place.
(dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
• coitally
Source: Wiktionary
Lo*cal"i*ty, n.; pl. Localitiees (. Etym: [L. localitas: cf. F. localité.]
1. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits. It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality. Glanvill.
2. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
3. Limitation to a county, district, or place; as, locality of trial. Blackstone.
4. (Phren.)
Definition: The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
4 April 2025
(verb) kill by cutting the head off with a guillotine; “The French guillotined many Vietnamese while they occupied the country”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
