location
nouncommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//ləʊˈkeɪʃən//
- United States//loʊˈkeɪʃən//
A particular point or place in physical space.
noun
- 1
A particular point or place in physical space.
- 2
An act of locating.
The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.
- 3
An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations[…]
- 4
A leasing on rent.
- 5
A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- 6
The marking out of the boundaries, or identifying the place or site of, a piece of land, according to the description given in an entry, plan, map, etc
- 7
An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Forms
- plural
- locations