[
  {
    "word": "local",
    "phonetic": "/\u02c8l\u0259\u028akl\u0329/",
    "phonetics": [
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8l\u0259\u028akl\u0329/",
        "audio": ""
      },
      {
        "text": "/\u02c8lo\u028akl\u0329/",
        "audio": "https://api.dictionaryapi.dev/media/pronunciations/en/local-us.mp3",
        "sourceUrl": "https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1684661",
        "license": {
          "name": "BY-SA 3.0",
          "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
        }
      }
    ],
    "meanings": [
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "A person who lives near a given place.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "It's easy to tell the locals from the tourists."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A branch of a nationwide organization such as a trade union.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I'm in the TWU, too. Local 6."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A train that stops at all, or almost all, stations between its origin and destination, including very small ones.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The expresses skipped my station, so I had to take a local."
          },
          {
            "definition": "One's nearest or regularly frequented public house or bar.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "I got barred from my local, so I've started going all the way into town for a drink."
          },
          {
            "definition": "A locally scoped identifier.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Functional programming languages usually don't allow changing the immediate value of locals once they've been initialized, unless they're explicitly marked as being mutable."
          },
          {
            "definition": "An item of news relating to the place where the newspaper is published.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "stopper"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "express",
          "fast"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "From or in a nearby location.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "We prefer local produce."
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of a variable or identifier) Having limited scope (either lexical or dynamic); only being accessible within a certain portion of a program.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "(of a condition or state) Applying to each point in a space rather than the space as a whole.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          },
          {
            "definition": "Of or pertaining to a restricted part of an organism.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "The patient didn't want to be sedated, so we applied only local anesthesia."
          },
          {
            "definition": "Descended from an indigenous population.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "Hawaiian Pidgin is spoken by the local population."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [
          "topical"
        ],
        "antonyms": [
          "global"
        ]
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "adverb",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "In the local area; within a city, state, country, etc.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": [],
            "example": "It's never been more important to buy local."
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      },
      {
        "partOfSpeech": "noun",
        "definitions": [
          {
            "definition": "An anesthetic (anesthetic substance) that causes loss of sensation only to the area to which it is applied.",
            "synonyms": [],
            "antonyms": []
          }
        ],
        "synonyms": [],
        "antonyms": []
      }
    ],
    "license": {
      "name": "CC BY-SA 3.0",
      "url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0"
    },
    "sourceUrls": [
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/local",
      "https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/local%20anesthetic"
    ]
  }
]