What part of speech is local?

Local can be categorized as a noun and an adjective.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. local is a noun, singular of locals.
  • 2. local is an adjective.

Inflections

Noun

Adjective

  • Positive
    Comparative
    Superlative
  • local 
    more local
    most local
  • Positive: local 
  • Comparative: more local
  • Superlative: most local

Adjective to adverb

  • adjective: local
  • adverb: locally 

What does local mean?

Definitions

Adjective

local - affecting only a restricted part or area of the body; "local anesthesia"
local - of or belonging to or characteristic of a particular locality or neighborhood; "local customs"; "local schools"; "the local citizens"; "a local point of view"; "local outbreaks of flu"; "a local bus line"
local - relating to or applicable to or concerned with the administration of a city or town or district rather than a larger area; "local taxes"; "local authorities"

Noun

local - 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"
local - anesthetic that numbs a particular area of the body

Examples of local

#   Sentence  
1. noun The local seemed to take forever to get to New York.
2. adj. Local anesthesia.
3. adj. Local customs.
4. adj. Local schools.
5. adj. The local citizens.
6. adj. A local point of view.
7. adj. Local outbreaks of flu.
8. adj. A local bus line.
9. adj. Local taxes.
10. adj. Local authorities.
11. adj. Of course, the sooner the US soldiers can be withdrawn in favor of less-provocative local or international forces, the better.
12. adj. The thing to keep in mind is that Sunni Arab nationalists and Baathists and local Sunni radicals are likely to remain far more dangerous to the US in Iraq than al-Qaeda infiltrators, and it would be dangerous to take one's eyes off the former ball.
13. adj. In addition, LTTE activity in the Andaman Sea is well known to local observers.
14. adj. Groom says this job helped Mr. Bush understand how even in a statewide Senate campaign, politics are local.
15. adj. After the sentencing one of Robinson's tearful supporters "turned to Claudia Vercellotti, a local leader of the Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests [SNAP], who had helped reopen the case, and told her, 'I hope you rot in hell!'"
16. adj. I guess those guns will be located enroute to Venezuela or found in storage there by one of the US's local stooges and they then have a pretext to ramp the spin up a notch or two.
Sentence  
noun
The local seemed to take forever to get to New York.
adj.
Local anesthesia.
Local customs.
Local schools.
The local citizens.
A local point of view.
Local outbreaks of flu.
A local bus line.
Local taxes.
Local authorities.
Of course, the sooner the US soldiers can be withdrawn in favor of less-provocative local or international forces, the better.
The thing to keep in mind is that Sunni Arab nationalists and Baathists and local Sunni radicals are likely to remain far more dangerous to the US in Iraq than al-Qaeda infiltrators, and it would be dangerous to take one's eyes off the former ball.
In addition, LTTE activity in the Andaman Sea is well known to local observers.
Groom says this job helped Mr. Bush understand how even in a statewide Senate campaign, politics are local.
After the sentencing one of Robinson's tearful supporters "turned to Claudia Vercellotti, a local leader of the Survivors Network for Those Abused by Priests [SNAP], who had helped reopen the case, and told her, 'I hope you rot in hell!'"
I guess those guns will be located enroute to Venezuela or found in storage there by one of the US's local stooges and they then have a pretext to ramp the spin up a notch or two.

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