different between locality vs terrain

English

Etymology

From French localité, from Late Latin localitas, equivalent to local +? -ity.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /lo??kæl?ti/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /l???kæl?ti/
• Rhymes: -æl?ti
• Hyphenation: lo?cal?i?ty

Noun

locality (countable and uncountable, plural localities)

1. The fact or quality of having a position in space.
   • 1665, Joseph Glanvill, Scepsis Scientifica

     It is thought that the soul and angels are devoid of quantity and dimension, and that they have nothing to do with grosser locality.

2. The features or surroundings of a particular place.
3. (uncountable, mathematics, computing) The condition of being local.
4. The situation or position of an object.
5. An area or district considered as the site of certain activities; a neighbourhood.
6. Limitation to a county, district, or place.
7. (dated, phrenology) The perceptive faculty concerned with the ability to remember the relative positions of places.

Translations

References

• locality in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• coitally

English

Etymology

Borrowed from French terrain, from Latin terrenum (“land, ground”), neuter of terrenus (“consisting of earth”), from terra (“earth”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.?re?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Noun

terrain (countable and uncountable, plural terrains)

1. (geology) A single, distinctive rock formation; an area having a preponderance of a particular rock or group of rocks.
2. An area of land or the particular features of it.

Synonyms

• ground

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Further reading

• terrain in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• rantier, retrain, trainer

French

Etymology

From Old French terrain, terrein, from Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terr?num.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t?.???/

Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. ground, landscape
2. field (as in soccer field)

3. lot, plot, parcel

Derived terms

Descendants

• ? Czech: terén
• Norwegian:

  ? Norwegian Bokmål: terreng

  ? Norwegian Nynorsk: terreng

• ? Swedish: terräng

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• rentrai, ternira, trainer, traîner

Romansch

Alternative forms

• terren (Rumantsch Grischun, Sursilvan)
• taragn (Sutsilvan)
• teragn (Surmiran)

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *terranum, from Latin terrenum.

Noun

terrain m (plural terrains)

1. (Puter, Vallader) land, soil
2. (Puter) country, land

   Synonym: (Rumantsch Grischun, Puter, Vallader) pajais