location

See also: Location

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate +‎ -ion.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/

• Audio (US):

  (file)

• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

location (plural locations)

1. A particular point or place in physical space.
   • 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:

     The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them […] is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies. […] current tax rules make it easy for all sorts of firms to generate […] “stateless income”: profit subject to tax in a jurisdiction that is neither the location of the factors of production that generate the income nor where the parent firm is domiciled.

2. An act of locating.
   • 1886 November 12, Joseph Church Helm, opinion, Pelican & Dives Min. Co. v. Snodgrass, reprinted in, 1887, Pacific Reporter, volume 12, page 207 [1]:

     The Ontario tunnel was not located in pursuance of the law relating to tunnel-sites. Lewis failed to follow up his discovery of mineral therein with any effort whatever towards completing the statutory location of a mining claim.

3. (South Africa) An apartheid-era urban area populated by non-white people; township.
   • 2011, Dennis Brutus, Bernth Lindfors, The Dennis Brutus Tapes: Essays at Autobiography, page 188:

     It is the sounds of apartheid, of the townships, the locations […]

4. (law) A leasing on rent.
5. (law, Scotland) A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire.
6. (law, US) 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
7. (Kenya) An administrative region in Kenya, below counties and subcounties, and further divided into sublocations.

Synonyms

• (a place): place

Derived terms

• bilocation
• central location test
• co-location
• cytolocation
• delocation
• echolocation
• electrolocation
• elocation
• geolocation
• immunolocation
• interlocation
• intralocation
• location-agnostic
• location arithmetic
• locationism
• locationist
• macrolocation
• measure of location
• micro-location
• microlocation
• mislocation
• multilocation
• on location
• photolocation
• radiolocation
• relocation
• translocation

 

Related terms

• local
• locale
• localize
• locate
• locational
• locative
• locator

 

Descendants

• → German: Location

Translations

place

• Albanian: vendndodhje (sq)
• Arabic: مَوْقِع (ar) m (mawqiʕ), مَكَان (ar) m (makān), مَوْضِع m (mawḍiʕ)

  Egyptian Arabic: مكان m (makān)

  Moroccan Arabic: بلاصة (blāṣa)

• Belarusian: месцазнахо́джанне n (mjescaznaxódžannje), стано́вішча n (stanóvišča), ме́сца (be) n (mjésca)
• Bengali: জায়গা (bn) (jaẏga), স্থান (bn) (sthan)
• Bulgarian: мя́сто (bg) n (mjásto), местоположе́ние (bg) n (mestopoložénie)
• Catalan: ubicació (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 位置 (zh) (wèizhi), 場所／场所 (zh) (chǎngsuǒ), 地點／地点 (zh) (dìdiǎn), 地方 (zh) (dìfang)

• Czech: poloha (cs) f, umístění (cs), místo (cs)
• Danish: beliggenhed c, sted (da) n, plads (da) c
• Dutch: plaats (nl) f, locatie (nl) f
• Esperanto: situo (eo)
• Estonian: asukoht, ruum (et)
• Finnish: paikka (fi), sijainti (fi)
• French: lieu (fr) m, localisation (fr) f, situation (fr) f, emplacement (fr), position (fr)
• Georgian: მდებარეობა (mdebareoba), ადგილმდებარეობა (adgilmdebareoba), ადგილი (ka) (adgili), ადგილსამყოფელი (adgilsamq̇opeli)
• German: Lage (de) f, Ort (de) m, Platz (de) m, Standort (de) m
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 m (staþs)
• Greek: τοποθεσία (el) f (topothesía), θέση (el) f (thési)
• Icelandic: staðsetning f, staður (is) m
• Italian: posizione (it) f, ubicazione (it) f
• Japanese: 位置 (ja) (いち, ichi), 場所 (ja) (ばしょ, basho), 地点 (ja) (ちてん, chiten)
• Khmer: ស្ថាន (km) (sthaan), ថាន (thaan)
• Korean: 위치(位置) (ko) (wichi), 장소(場所) (ko) (jangso), 지점(地點) (ko) (jijeom)
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: locus (la) m
• Macedonian: место n (mesto), местоположба f (mestopoložba), локација f (lokacija)
• Maori: taiwhanga, wāhi, tauwāhi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: sted (no) n, beliggenhet m or f

  Nynorsk: stad m

• Old Church Slavonic:

  Cyrillic: мѣсто n (město)

• Old English: stow f
• Ottoman Turkish: مكان (mekân)
• Persian: جایگاه (fa) (jâygâh), محل (fa) (mahall), مکان (fa) (makân)
• Plautdietsch: Städ f
• Polish: lokalizacja (pl) f, położenie (pl) n, miejsce (pl) n
• Portuguese: local (pt) m, localização (pt) f
• Russian: положе́ние (ru) n (položénije), местоположе́ние (ru) n (mestopoložénije), местонахожде́ние (ru) n (mestonaxoždénije), расположе́ние (ru) n (raspoložénije), пози́ция (ru) f (pozícija), ме́сто (ru) n (mésto)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ме̏сто n, мје̏сто n, лока́ција f

  Roman: mȅsto (sh) n, mjȅsto (sh) n, lokácija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ස්ථානය (si) (sthānaya)
• Slovak: poloha f, umiestnenie n, miesto (sk) n
• Slovene: lokacija f, mesto (sl) n, kraj (sl) m
• Spanish: ubicación (es) f, lugar (es) m, posición (es)
• Swedish: läge (sv) n, plats (sv) c
• Tajik: ҷойгоҳ (joygoh), макон (makon), маҳалл (mahall), маҳал (mahal)
• Thai: ตำแหน่ง (th) (dtam-nɛ̀ng), สถานที่ (th) (sà-tǎan-tîi), ที่ (th) (tîi)
• Tocharian B: wṣeñña, īke
• Turkish: konum (tr), yer (tr), lokasyon (tr)
• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎋𐎐𐎚 (mknt)
• Ukrainian: місцеполо́ження n (miscepolóžennja), поло́ження n (polóžennja), розташува́ння n (roztašuvánnja), мі́сце (uk) n (mísce), місцезнаходження n (misceznaxodžennja)
• Vietnamese: vị trí (vi), địa điểm (vi)

act of locating

• Belarusian: размяшчэ́нне n (razmjaščénnje)
• Bulgarian: разпола́гане (bg) n (razpolágane)
• Catalan: ubicació (ca)
• Danish: lokalisering c
• Finnish: sijoittaminen (fi)
• Georgian: ლოკაცია (loḳacia)
• German: Ortsbestimmung (de) f, Ortsermittlung f, Ortung (de) f, Lokalisierung f, Lokalisation f
• Italian: collocamento (it) m, collocazione (it) f
• Japanese: 配置 (ja) (はいち, haichi), 設置 (ja) (せっち, setchi)
• Polish: lokacja f
• Portuguese: localização (pt) f
• Russian: размеще́ние (ru) n (razmeščénije)
• Slovene: lociranje n
• Spanish: ubicación (es)
• Swedish: lokalisering (sv)

administrative region in Kenya

• Swahili: kata (sw)

Further reading

• “location”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “location”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “location”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Anagrams

• colation, coontail

French

FWOTD – 20 December 2012

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin locātiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɔ.ka.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

location f (plural locations)

1. renting, rental
2. rent
3. rented accommodation
   • 2012, Delphine Batho, Le Monde:

     L’article indique que j’ai « abusé des prix avantageux de la Ville de Paris » en référence au logement intermédiaire dont j’étais locataire. Je tiens à préciser que cette location avait été attribuée dans des conditions normales et régulières en 2001, six ans avant que je sois élue députée.

     The article suggests that I ‘abused favourable prices in the City of Paris’ with regard to the intermediary housing of which I was a tenant. I wish to clarify that this accommodation had been allocated under normal, regular conditions in 2001, six years before I was elected Deputy.

4. hire (of a car etc.)
5. booking, reservation

Usage notes

• A false friend of the English location, whose French equivalents include endroit, lieu, and emplacement.

Related terms

• lieu
• locatif
• louer
• loyer

See also

• établissement

Further reading

• “location”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.