nonlocal
English
editEtymology
editAdjective
editnonlocal (not comparable)
- Not local; not specific to a location
- 2009 January 16, Holland Cotter, “Black History, Alive in Washington”, in New York Times[1]:
- In 1967 the Smithsonian Institution set up a satellite exhibition and research center here, the Anacostia Community Museum, which defines community in a nonlocal way.
Noun
editnonlocal (plural nonlocals)
- One who is not a local; a stranger or foreigner.
- 2013, Chad Haines, Nation, Territory, and Globalization in Pakistan:
- Touristic discourse is inherently unlocal: a construction of images and representations that delocalize a tourist destination, repackaging it into terms and images easily circulated and consumed by nonlocals.
- (computing) An identifier that is not locally scoped.
Synonyms
edit- (foreigner): alien, outlander, peregrine; see also Thesaurus:foreigner