location
English dictionary entry
Meanings
noun
- A particular point or place in physical space.
- An act of locating.
- An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; a township.
- A leasing on rent.
- A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
- 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
- An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.
Pronunciation
/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
/loʊˈkeɪʃən/
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Word forms
location
locations
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Synonyms
a place
Derived words
bilocation
central location test
co-location
cytolocation
delocation
echolocation
electrolocation
elocation
emergency location transmitter
emergency location transponder
geolocation
immunolocation
interlocation
intralocation
location-agnostic
location arithmetic
locationism
locationist
location map
macrolocation
measure of location
micro-location
microlocation
mislocation
multilocation
on location
personal location beacon
personal location radiobeacon
photolocation
radiolocation
relocation
storage location
translocation
Translations
Albanian: vend
Arabic: مَوْقِع
Arabic: مَكَان
Arabic: مَوْضِع
Arabic: مكان
Arabic: بلاصة
Azerbaijani: yer
Azerbaijani: qonuq
Belarusian: месцазнахо́джанне
Belarusian: стано́вішча
Belarusian: ме́сца
Bengali: জায়গা
Bengali: স্থান
Bulgarian: мя́сто
Bulgarian: местоположе́ние
Catalan: ubicació
Chinese Mandarin: 位置
Chinese Mandarin: 場所 /场所
Chinese Mandarin: 地點 /地点
Chinese Mandarin: 地方
Czech: poloha
Czech: umístění
Czech: místo
Danish: beliggenhed
Danish: sted
Danish: plads
Dutch: plaats
Dutch: locatie
Esperanto: loko
Esperanto: situo
Estonian: asukoht
Estonian: ruum
Finnish: paikka
Finnish: sijainti
French: lieu
French: localisation
French: situation
French: emplacement
French: position
Georgian: მდებარეობა
Georgian: ადგილმდებარეობა
Georgian: ადგილი
Georgian: ადგილსამყოფელი
German: Lage
German: Ort
German: Platz
German: Standort
Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃
Greek: τοποθεσία
Greek: θέση
Hindi: अवस्थिति
Icelandic: staðsetning
Icelandic: staður
Italian: posizione
Italian: ubicazione
Japanese: 位置
Japanese: 場所
Japanese: 地点
Khmer: ស្ថាន
Khmer: ថាន
Korean: 위치
Korean: 장소
Korean: 지점
Latin: locus
Macedonian: место
Macedonian: местоположба
Macedonian: локација
Māori: taiwhanga
Māori: wāhi
Māori: tauwāhi
Norwegian Bokmål: sted
Norwegian Bokmål: beliggenhet
Norwegian Nynorsk: stad
Church Slavic: мѣсто
Old English: stow
Persian: جایگاه
Persian: محل
Persian: مکان
Plautdietsch: Städ
Polish: lokalizacja
Polish: położenie
Polish: miejsce
Portuguese: local
Portuguese: localização
Romanian: localizarea
Russian: положе́ние
Russian: местоположе́ние
Russian: местонахожде́ние
Russian: расположе́ние
Russian: пози́ция
Russian: ме́сто
Serbo-Croatian: ме̏сто
Serbo-Croatian: мје̏сто
Serbo-Croatian: лока́ција
Serbo-Croatian: mȅsto
Serbo-Croatian: mjȅsto
Serbo-Croatian: lokácija
Sinhalese: ස්ථානය
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