location
Plural: locations
Noun
- A place where something is situated or an act of locating.
- a point or extent in space
- the act of putting something in a certain place
- a determination of the place where something is
- a workplace away from a studio at which some or all of a movie may be made
- "they shot the film on location in Nevada"
- 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.
Examples
- The new player struggled to find a good location for his seven-letter word.
Origin / Etymology
Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.
Synonyms
emplacement, fix, localisation, localization, locating, placement, position, positioning, a place
Antonyms
Scrabble Score: 10
location: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordlocation: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
location: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary