locality

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A particular neighborhood, place, or district: "Localities, even individual villages, developed their own languages” ( Wall Street Journal).
2. n. The fact or quality of having position in space.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The condition of being in a place; position or situation in general; the immediate relation of an object to a place.
2. n. Any part of space; a situation; position; particularly, a geographical place or situation: as, a healthy locality; the locality of a mineral, plant, or animal. Compare habitat, 2.
3. n. Legal restriction as to place or location.
4. n. In phrenology, the faculty to which is ascribed the power of remembering the details of places and the location of objects.
5. n. In phytogeography, the approximate geographic position of an individual specimen: less definite than. station.
6. n. In psychology, a phrase loosely formed on the analogy of ‘sense of space,’ ‘sense of time,’ etc., to denote the power of cutaneous localization, that is, of referring a cutaneous stimulus to the area of the skin to which it is applied.

Wiktionary

1. n. The fact or quality of having a position in space.
2. n. pl. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
3. n. The situation or position of an object.
4. n. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
5. n. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
6. n. dated The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. The state, or condition, of belonging to a definite place, or of being contained within definite limits.
2. n. Position; situation; a place; a spot; esp., a geographical place or situation, as of a mineral or plant.
3. n. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
4. n. (Phren.) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a surrounding or nearby region