Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) A fortified town.

(rare) A town or city.

A town having a municipal corporation and certain traditional rights.

An administrative district in some cities, e.g., London.

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An administrative unit of a city which, under most circumstances according to state or national law, would be considered a larger or more powerful entity; most commonly used in American English to define the five counties that make up New York City.

Other similar administrative units in cities and states in various parts of the world.

A district in Alaska having powers similar to a county.

(historical, British, legal) An association of men who gave pledges or sureties to the king for the good behaviour of each other.

(historical, British, legal) The pledge or surety thus given.

(Blackstone)

(Tomlins)

(Webster 1913)

Noun

(localities)

The fact or quality of having a position in space.

* Glanvill

It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality .

(p) The features or surroundings of a particular place.

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.

locality of trial

(Blackstone)

(dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.