| Main Entry: | local |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | of a community, restricted to immediate area |
Synonyms: |
bounded, civic, confined, district, divisional, geographical, insular, legendary, limited, narrow, neighborhood, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, small-town, territorial, town, vernacular |
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: | 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, subsection, subsidiary, tributary, wing |
Antonyms: |
company |
| Main Entry: | characteristic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | typical; distinguishing |
Synonyms: |
appropriate, diagnostic, differentiating, discriminating, discriminative, distinctive, distinguishing, emblematic, especial, essential, exclusive, fixed, idiosyncratic, inborn, inbred, indicative, individual, individualistic, individualizing, ingrained, inherent, innate, local, marked, native, normal, original, particular, peculiar, personal, private, proper, regular, representative, singular, special, specific, symbolic, symptomatic, unique |
Antonyms: |
abnormal, uncharacteristic, untypical |
| Main Entry: | civic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | community |
Synonyms: |
borough, civil, communal, local, metropolitan, municipal, national, public, urban |
| Main Entry: | civil |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | civic, community |
Synonyms: |
civilian, domestic, governmental, home, interior, local, municipal, national, political, public |
| 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: | limited |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | restricted, definite |
Synonyms: |
bound, bounded, checked, circumscribed, confined, constrained, controlled, curbed, defined, delimited, determinate, finite, fixed, hampered, hemmed in, local, modified, narrow, particular, precise, qualified, reserved, restrained, sectional, topical |
Antonyms: |
indefinite, limitless, unbounded, unlimited, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | municipal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerning cities |
Synonyms: |
borough, burghal, city, civic, civil, community, corporate, domestic, home, incorporated, internal, local, metropolitan, native, public, town, urban |
Antonyms: |
country, suburban |