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"Local area"2 answers
district8 lettersneighbourhood13 letters
Filled answer is this word (DISTRICT).
Definitions
Area of a town or region
Word origin
From French district, from Medieval Latin districtus (“a district within which the lord may distrain, also jurisdiction”), from Latin districtus, past participle of distringere (“to draw asunder, compel, distrain”), from dis- (“apart”) + stringere (“to draw tight, strain”). Doublet of Detroit.
Used in a sentence
“Soho is a district of London”
“‘I understand that the district was considered a sort of sanctuary,’ the Chief was saying. ‘An Alsatia like the ancient one behind the Strand, or the Saffron Hill before the First World War.[…]’”
“the Lake District in Cumbria”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Local area”8 letters
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