location
Sayloh-KAY-shuhn/loʊˈkeɪʃən/UK/ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
Plurallocations
- 1
- 2A real place outside a studio where people film parts of a movie or TV show.
The movie was filmed on location in New York.
The TV crew found a perfect location for the show near the beach.
UsageSay on location, with no a or the: filmed on location in Rome.
- 3The act of finding or fixing where something is.
Phones with GPS have made the location of lost hikers much quicker.
The location of survivors is the first job of a rescue team.
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Less common meanings
- 4In South Africa in the past, an area of a town where only Black and other non-white people were allowed to live.
In old South Africa, Black workers were forced to live in a location.
Under apartheid, my grandmother grew up in a location outside Cape Town.
Similartownship
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- 5In US law, identifying where land lies or marking its boundaries using a written description or map.
- 6In law, an agreement to let someone use a thing or a person's work in return for payment.
- 7In Kenya, an administrative area below a county and subcounty, divided into smaller areas called sublocations.
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Origin
From Latin locatio, meaning "a placing," from locare ("to place") and locus ("a place").
Checked 5 Nov 2026 · 4 facts
- Location comes from Latin locatio, meaning "a placing". en.wiktionary.org
- Latin locatio derives from locare. en.wiktionary.org
- Latin locare means "to place". en.wiktionary.org
- The derivation continues through locare to locus, meaning "a place". en.wiktionary.org