locals
locals is a polysyllabic word with 2 syllables. Using the Knuth-Liang algorithm, we calculated the hyphenation for the word you’ve entered. However, this hyphenation has not been verified against authoritative sources and may be approximate. This is because the algorithm relies on pre-defined patterns that may not cover all exceptions, contextual variations, or irregular spellings. We are working to verify hyphenations against trusted sources to ensure greater accuracy. For now, locals is hyphenated as:
Definitions oflocals
- A person who lives near a given place.
Example: "It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
- A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.
Example: "I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
- A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.
Example: "The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."
- One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.
Example: "I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."
- A locally scoped identifier.
Example: "Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable."
- An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
- An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.
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