location

Meaning

Noun

• A particular point or place in physical space.
• An act of locating.
• An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; 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

Related

Similar words

• place

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin locatio ("a placing"), from locare, from locus. Equivalent to locate + -ion.