Locale and Place

Locale

Locale noun - The area or space occupied by or intended for something.
Usage example: we found an ideal locale for our annual picnic
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Synonyms for Locale

Place is a synonym for locale in setting topic. In some cases you can use "Place" instead a noun "Locale", when it comes to topics like space, location, site.

Place

Place noun - The area or space occupied by or intended for something.
Usage example: there's the place where I left my umbrella

Locale is a synonym for place in location topic. You can use "Locale" instead a noun "Place", if it concerns topics such as function, space, region.

Nearby Words: placed, placement, placing, placer, placet

How words are described

high high locale high place
full full locale full place
safe safe locale safe place
particular particular locale particular place
Other adjectives: similar, usual, common, original, correct, single, popular, actual, entire, real, wrong, dangerous, distant, beautiful, new, former, next, strange, different, favorite.

Both words in one sentence

  • Instead of taking place in the Mushroom Kingdom or some other similar locale, the game takes place in some real world lookalike locations, such as Egypt and China.
  • Kill 'em All Similarly, season four takes place in just one locale and many of the characters survive until the end of the season when the Lexx blows up Earth.
    Source: Kill 'em All
  • So engrained is Transylvania as a fantastical locale in modern culture, that many people probably don't even realize that it's even a real place, let alone a region within Romania.
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Place and Locale. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/locale/place
Locale & Place. N.p., 2016. Web. 21 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/locale/place>.
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