locals
SayLOH-kuhlzUS/ˈloʊ.kl̩z/UK/ˈləʊ.kl̩z/
- 1Plural of local.
Tourists crowd the beaches in summer, but the locals prefer the quieter coves.
Several locals volunteered to rebuild the flooded community center.
Note
A regular plural that gathers up every noun use of local, so context decides which one is meant. With the definite article it usually means the people who live somewhere, often set against visitors. But a trade union can have several locals, a rail line runs locals, a programmer declares locals inside a function, and in British usage a drinker may have more than one local to choose between.
locals is a form of local
local, noun: A person who lives in or near a particular place, as distinct from a visitor. Full entry
- Forms
- locallocals plural
- Spelling
- local → locals: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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