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DictionaryEnglish - Myanmar
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local

/ˈləʊk(ə)l/

US pronunciation
American sound/ˈləʊk(ə)l/
local
Syllables
2 syllables
Stress
1st syllable stress
Vowel
Schwa vowel
Ending
Clear final sound

lo - cal -> local

Myanmar meaning

(adj) အရပ်၊ ဒေသ၊ နယ်ပယ်တစ်ခုနှင့်ဆိုင်သော။ ဒေသခံ။ နယ်ခံ။ ဒေသ။ နယ်။

Full entry

local / 'lǝƱkl / adj

၁။ အရပ်၊ ဒေသ၊ နယ်ပယ်တစ်ခုနှင့်ဆိုင်သော။ ဒေသခံ။ နယ်ခံ။ ဒေသ။ နယ်။ a local farmer/doctor/shopkeeper ❍ local knowledge (ie detailed knowledge of an area that one gets esp by living there) ❍ She’s a local girl (ie from this area). ❍ have one’s picture in the local paper ❍ Following the national news we have the local news and weather.
၂။ (esp medical ) ခန္ဓာအစိတ်အပိုင်း တစ်ရပ်အတွက်သာ ထိရောက်မှုရှိ သော။ a local anaesthetic (ie not one that puts you to sleep).
n
၁။ (usu pl ) ဒေသခံ။ နယ်ခံ။ The locals tend to be suspicious of strangers.
၂။ (Brit infml ) မိမိရပ်ကွက်၊ အိမ် အနီးရှိ အရက်ဆိုင်။ pop into the local for a drink ❍ Which is your local?
❏ local authority n (Brit ) ဒေသန္တရအုပ်ချုပ်ရေးအဖွဲ့။ ဒေသန္တရအာဏာပိုင်အဖွဲ့။
❏ local call n အနီးအနား သတ်မှတ်နေရာအတွင်း တယ်လီဖုန်း ဆက်ခြင်း။
❏ local colour n [U] ဝတ္ထုဇာတ်လမ်း အကြောင်းအရာအရ သက်ဆိုင်သည့် ဒေသ၊ မြင်ကွင်း၊ စရိုက် စသည်။
❏ local government n [U] ဒေသန္တရအာဏာပိုင်။ ဒေသန္တရ အစိုးရ။
❏ locally / -kǝli / adv အနီးအနား (သို့) နေရာကွက်၍။ She lives locally (ie near).
❏ local time n [U] ဒေသစံတော်ချိန်။ We reach Delhi at 1400 hours local time.

More examples
  • Ask for the book in your local library.
  • The local newspaper regards itself as the voice of the community.
  • The aim is to improve services at both the local and national level.
  • Local calls cost 2p a minute.
  • A local infection
Synonyms
restricted, limited, confined, narrow, area, bounded, character, citizen, civic, community, district, divisional, geographical, home, homegrown, indigenous, inhabitant, insular, legendary, native, neighborhood, neighboring, parish, parochial, provincial, regional, resident, sectarian, sectional, small-town, territorial, town, vernacular
Antonyms
alien, broad, broad-minded, foreign, foreigner, liberal, national, nonnative, stranger, universal, unrestricted
Cross references
restrictedlimitedconfinednarrowareaboundedcharactercitizenciviccommunitydistrictdivisionalgeographicalhomehomegrownindigenousinhabitantinsularlegendarynativeneighborhoodneighboringparishparochialprovincialregionalresidentsectarian
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