LOCALITY definition: a place, spot, or district, with or without reference to things or persons in it or to occurrences there. See examples of locality used in a sentence.

Towns & regions: environments & localities (Definition of locality from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

Definition of locality noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

lo•cal•i•ty (loʊˈkæl ɪ ti) n., pl. -ties. 1. a specific place or area; location: They moved to another locality. 2. the state or fact of having a location: the locality that every material object must have.

The meaning of LOCALITY is the fact or condition of having a location in space or time. How to use locality in a sentence.

A locality is a small area of a country or city. Following the accident the president cancelled his visit to the locality.

Use the noun locality when you need an official-sounding way to say "area" or "region." For example, you might say, "I am so pleased to finally have a doughnut shop in my locality."