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locally

/ˈləʊkəli/

locally adverb: with respect to place; in place.

Adverb

locally (comparative more locally, superlative most locally)

  1. With respect to place; in place.
    • These things are locally separated.
  2. In or from the local area.
    • We live locally, so I always bank locally.
    • In this shop we only sell products farmed locally.
  3. In a restricted part of the body.
    • To be applied locally
    • Puri et al demonstrated that intravesically administered apaziquone is well tolerated locally and systemically, and it has ablative activity for superficial bladder cancer marker lesions.2015 July 25, “Anticancer Activity of Apaziquone in Oral Cancer Cells and Xenograft Model: Implications for Oral Cancer Therapy”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI
  4. Within a sufficiently small sphere (or circle or interval) around a given point (sometimes, around any point).
    • locally Euclidean

locally meaning in Kannada

locally in Kannada

ಸ್ಥಳೀಯವಾಗಿ

Examples of locally in a sentence

  • She became disrespectfully referred to locally as the "Crab" on account of her extraordinary manoeuvrability.1956 February, R. C. Riley, “The Lymington Railway and Isle of Wight Ferry”, in Railway Magazine, page 82:
  • “All sales in the U.S. are now handled by locally based sellers, with orders fulfilled from within the country.”2025 May 2, Elisabeth Buchwald and Ramishah Maruf, “A massive tariff on millions of Americans’ purchases just went into effect — cue the...

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Forms of locally

comparativemore locally
superlativemost locally

Origin of locally

From local + -ly.

Words formed from locally

Phrases with locally

Questions about locally

What does locally mean?
Locally means with respect to place; in place.
What is locally in Kannada?
Locally in Kannada is ಸ್ಥಳೀಯವಾಗಿ. See Locally meaning in Kannada.
How do you use locally in a sentence?
She became disrespectfully referred to locally as the "Crab" on account of her extraordinary manoeuvrability.
What part of speech is locally?
Locally is an adverb.
How do you pronounce locally?
Locally is pronounced /ˈləʊkəli/.

Words near locally in the dictionary

  1. localized
  2. localizer
  3. localizers
  4. localizes
  5. localizing
  6. locally
  7. locally compact
  8. locally compact group
  9. locally compact groups
  10. locally finite
  11. locally indicable

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: locally (page history and authors); locally (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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