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| Main Entry: | local |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of a community, restricted to immediate area |
| Synonyms: | bounded, civic, confined, district, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, territorial, town, vernacular, divisional, small-town |
| Antonyms: | foreign, nonnative |
| Main Entry: | local |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person deeply rooted in community |
| Synonyms: | character, inhabitant, native, resident |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreigner, nonnative |
| Main Entry: | characteristic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | typical; distinguishing |
| Synonyms: | appropriate, diagnostic, discriminating, distinctive, distinguishing, especial, essential, exclusive, fixed, idiosyncratic, inborn, inbred, indicative, individual, ingrained, inherent, innate, local, marked, native, normal, original, particular, peculiar, personal, private, proper, regular, representative, singular, special, specific, symbolic, symptomatic, unique, differentiating, discriminative, emblematic, individualistic, individualizing |
| Antonyms: | abnormal, untypical, uncharacteristic |
| Main Entry: | civic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | community |
| Synonyms: | borough, civil, communal, local, metropolitan, municipal, national, public, urban |
| Main Entry: | endemic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | native |
| Synonyms: | local, regional |
| Notes: | an endemic is a disease that is constantly present to a greater or lesser degree in people of a certain class or in people living in a particular location; an epidemic is a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease that infects many people at the same time; a pandemic is an epidemic that is geographically widespread occurring throughout a region or even throughout the world |
| Main Entry: | home |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | domestic |
| Synonyms: | at ease, at rest, central, down home, familiar, family, homely, homey, household, in one's element, in the bosom, inland, internal, local, national, native |
| Antonyms: | business, commercial |
| Main Entry: | municipal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning cities |
| Synonyms: | borough, city, civic, civil, community, corporate, domestic, home, incorporated, internal, local, metropolitan, native, public, town, urban, burghal |
| Antonyms: | country, suburban |
| Main Entry: | native |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person born in the country in which he/she dwells |
| Synonyms: | aboriginal, aborigine, ancient, citizen, dweller, inhabitant, local, national, autochthon, home towner, indigene |
| Antonyms: | alien, foreigner, immigrant, stranger |
| Main Entry: | parochial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, restricted |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, insular, limited, local, narrow, petty, prejudiced, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, shallow, small-minded, inward-looking, small-town |
| Antonyms: | broad, liberal, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | provincial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | countrified; limited |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, bucolic, country, homegrown, homespun, insular, local, narrow, narrow-minded, parochial, pastoral, petty, rude, rural, rustic, sectarian, small-minded, uninformed, unpolished, unsophisticated, hidebound, inward-looking, small-town |
| Antonyms: | liberal, metropolitan, modern, citified |
| Main Entry: | resident |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person living in a particular place |
| Synonyms: | citizen, denizen, dweller, habitant, householder, inhabitant, inmate, local, lodger, native, occupant, squatter, tenant, indweller, liver, resider, suburbanite, urbanite |
| Main Entry: | sectarian |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, exclusive |
| Synonyms: | bigoted, clannish, dissident, doctrinaire, dogmatic, fanatic, fanatical, insular, limited, local, nonconforming, nonconformist, parochial, partisan, provincial, rigid, skeptical, splinter, cliquish, factional, hidebound, schismatic, small-town |
| Antonyms: | broad, broad-minded, liberal, nonsectarian |
| Main Entry: | sectional |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | localized, divided |
| Synonyms: | exclusive, local, narrow, partial, regional, selfish, separate, factional, separatist |
| Antonyms: | general, universal, widespread |
| Main Entry: | vernacular |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | native, colloquial |
| Synonyms: | common, dialectal, domesticated, idiomatic, indigenous, informal, ingrained, inherent, local, natural, ordinary, popular, vulgar, plebian |
| Main Entry: | dialectal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | regional |
| Synonyms: | colloquial, idiomatic, indigenous, limited, local, local, provincial, vernacular, dialectical |
| Main Entry: | idiomatic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | informal |
| Synonyms: | colloquial, dialectal, local, natural, vernacular |
| Main Entry: | labor union |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | organized group of employees |
| Synonyms: | local, organized labor, trade union, craft union, industrial union, trades union |
| Main Entry: | branch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | department |
| Synonyms: | annex, arm, bureau, category, chapter, classification, connection, dependency, derivative, division, extension, local, member, office, outpost, part, portion, section, subdivision, subsidiary, tributary, wing, subsection |
| Antonyms: | company |
| Main Entry: | civil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | civic, community |
| Synonyms: | civilian, domestic, governmental, home, interior, local, municipal, national, political, public |
| Main Entry: | limited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restricted, definite |
| Synonyms: | bound, bounded, confined, finite, fixed, local, modified, narrow, particular, precise, qualified, reserved, restrained, sectional, topical, checked, circumscribed, constrained, controlled, curbed, defined, delimited, determinate, hampered, hemmed in |
| Antonyms: | indefinite, limitless, unlimited, unrestricted, unbounded |
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