different between local vs yokel

English

Etymology

From Middle English local, from Late Latin loc?lis (“belonging to a place”), possibly also via Old French local; ultimately from Latin locus (“a place”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?l??kl?/
• (General American) enPR: l?k??l, IPA^(key): /?lo?kl?/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Adjective

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

1. From or in a nearby location.

   Holonyms: statal, national, federal, unional, supranational, global

2. (computing, of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.

   Antonym: global

3. (mathematics, not comparable, of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.
4. (medicine) Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.

   Synonym: topical

5. Descended from an indigenous population.

Translations

Noun

local (plural locals)

1. A person who lives near a given place.
2. A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.

   I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6.

3. (rail transport, chiefly US) A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.

   The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local.

   Synonym: stopper

   Antonyms: fast, express

4. (Britain) One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.

   I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink.

5. (programming) A locally scoped identifier.

   Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable.

   • 2012, Cesar Otero, ?Rob Larsen, Professional JQuery (page 25)

     Globals are visible anywhere in your application, whereas locals are visible only in the function in which they're declared.

6. (US, slang, journalism) An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.
7. (colloquial, medicine) Clipping of local anesthetic.
8. (finance) An independent trader who acts for themselves rather than on behalf of investors.
   • 2009, R. Stafford Johnson, Bond Evaluation, Selection, and Management (page 316)

     On most futures exchanges, there are two major types of futures traders/members: commission brokers and locals.

Translations

Adverb

local (comparative more local, superlative most local)

1. In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.

   It's never been more important to buy local.

Derived terms

Related terms

Further reading

• local in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• local in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• local at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• colla

Asturian

Adjective

local (epicene, plural locales)

1. Alternative form of llocal

Catalan

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus, attested from 1803.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic, Valencian) IPA^(key): /lo?kal/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /lu?kal/

Adjective

local (masculine and feminine plural locals)

1. local

Derived terms

• localitzar
• localment

Related terms

• lloc
• localitat

Noun

local m (plural locals)

1. property, premises; business, storefront

References

Further reading

• “local” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “local” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “local” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /l?.kal/

Adjective

local (feminine singular locale, masculine plural locaux, feminine plural locales)

1. local

Antonyms

• global

Derived terms

• anesthésie locale
• classe locale
• localité
• localisation

Related terms

• lieu
• location

Noun

local m (plural locaux)

1. room

Descendants

• ? Danish: lokale

Further reading

• “local” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• colla

Ladin

Pronunciation

Adjective

local m (feminine singular locala, masculine plural locai, feminine plural locales)

1. local

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lu?kal/

Adjective

local

1. local

Noun

local m

1. room

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus. Cognate with the inherited lugar.

Pronunciation

• (Portugal) IPA^(key): /lu.?ka?/
• (Brazil) IPA^(key): /lo.?kaw/
• Hyphenation: lo?cal

Adjective

local m or f (plural locais, comparable)

1. local

Noun

local m (plural locais)

1. premises, rooms
2. site
3. place, location

Synonyms

• (place, site): lugar, sítio

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French local, Late Latin localis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?kal/

Adjective

local m or n (feminine singular local?, masculine plural locali, feminine and neuter plural locale)

1. local

Declension

Related terms

• localitate
• loc
• loca?ie

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin loc?lis, from Latin locus. Compare the inherited doublet lugar.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lo?kal/, [lo?kal]
• Hyphenation: lo?cal

Adjective

local (plural locales)

1. local

Derived terms

• Grupo Local
• Policía Local

Noun

local m (plural locales)

1. premises, rooms
2. (Mexico) store or other retail unit in a shopping center

Derived terms

English

Etymology

1812, possibly from dialectal German Jokel, diminutive of Jakob; alternatively, from dialectal English yokel (“woodpecker”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?j??.k?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?jo?.k?l/
• Rhymes: -??k?l

Noun

yokel (plural yokels)

1. (derogatory) A person from or living in the countryside, viewed as being unsophisticated and/or naive.

   Synonyms: boor, bumpkin, country bumpkin, joskin, hillbilly, hick, peasant, provincial, rube, rustic, yahoo

   • 1838, Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, London: Richard Bentley, Volume 2, Chapter 30, p. 81,^[1]

     “ […] my opinion at once is […] that this [robbery] wasn’t done by a yokel?eh, Duff?”

     “Certainly not,” replied Duff.

     “And, translating the word yokel, for the benefit of the ladies, I apprehend your meaning to be that this attempt was not made by a countryman?” said Mr. Losberne with a smile.

   • 1895, Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage, New York: Appleton, Chapter 8, p. 88,^[2]

     He eyed the story-teller with unspeakable wonder. His mouth was agape in yokel fashion.

   • 1985, Peter De Vries, The Prick of Noon, Penguin, Chapter 6, p. 119,^[3]

     I went to New York and bought myself a secondhand stretch limousine twenty-eight feet long, calculated to reduce the most blasé country-club sophisticates to bug-eyed yokels.

   • 1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: Phoenix, 1994, Chapter 8.6, p. 560,^[4]

     ‘You may think that because you live in Brahmpur you have seen the world?or more of the world than we poor yokels see. But some of us yokels have also seen the world?and not just the world of Brahmpur, but of Bombay. […] ’

Derived terms

• yokelry

Translations

References

Anagrams

• Kolye, Lokey, koley, kyloe