location
Pronunciation: /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
The English word “location” has 7 meanings listed here.
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.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
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