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City vs Locality - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between city and locality

is that city is a large settlement, bigger than a town while locality is the fact or quality of having a position in space.

As a proper noun City

is a popular shortened form of the City of London, the historic core of London where the Roman settlement of Londinium was established.

city

English

(wikipedia city)

Alternative forms

* cyte

Noun

(cities)
  • A large settlement, bigger than a town.
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  • *:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city'; the ' city of one's dreams.
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    • , title= It's a gas , passage=One of the hidden glories of Victorian engineering is proper drains. Isolating a city ’s effluent and shipping it away in underground sewers has probably saved more lives than any medical procedure except vaccination.}}
  • (lb) The central business district; downtown.
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    • Derived terms

    (Terms derived from the above definition of "city") * citify * citizen * city banker * city block * city boy * city center * city centre * city clerk * city desk * city district * city father * city girl * city hall * city limit * city line * city man * city manager * city planning * city room * city slicker * city-state * cityscape * citywide * (l) * holy city * inner city/inner-city * sister city * the city * twin city (city)

    Related terms

    * civic * civil

    See also

    * metropolis * megalopolis * megacity

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    locality

    English

    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.

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