Word Meanings - LOCATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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. Burrill. Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act or process of locating. 2. Situation; place; locality.

Additional info about word: LOCATION

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. Burrill. Bouvier. (more info) 1. The act or process of locating. 2. Situation; place; locality. Locke. 3. That which is located; a tract of land designated in place. A leasing on rent. A contract for the use of a thing, or service of a person, for hire. Wharton.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of LOCATION)

• Destination
• Purpose
• intention
• design
• consignment
• object
• end
• fate
• doom
• arrival
• application
• use
• scope
• appointment
• point
• location
• goal
• aim
• Residence
• stay
• sojourn
• occupation
• abode
• pernoctation
• dwelling
• Settlement
• Subsidence
• dregs
• residuum
• precipitation
• colonization
• colony
• Station
• Standing
• post
• position
• office
• business
• place
• situation
• state
• rank

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of LOCATION)

• Chance
• risk
• hazard
• revoke
• Miscalculate
• venture
• stake
• Suppress
• repress
• suppose
• imply
• deny
• contradict
• retract

Related words: (words related to LOCATION)

• COLONIZATION
  Tha act of colonizing, or the state of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.
• STATESMANLIKE
  Having the manner or wisdom of statesmen; becoming a statesman.
• CHANCELLERY
  Chancellorship. Gower.
• HAZARDIZE
  A hazardous attempt or situation; hazard. Herself had run into that hazardize. Spenser.
• IMPLY
  1. To infold or involve; to wrap up. "His head in curls implied." Chapman. 2. To involve in substance or essence, or by fair inference, or by construction of law, when not include virtually; as, war implies fighting. Where a mulicious act is
• CONTRADICTABLE
  Capable of being contradicting.
• STATEHOOD
  The condition of being a State; as, a territory seeking Statehood.
• DESIGN
  drawing, dessein a plan or scheme; all, ultimately, from L. designare to designate; de- + signare to mark, mark out, signum mark, sign. See 1. To draw preliminary outline or main features of; to sketch for a pattern or model; to delineate; to trace
• REVOKER
  One who revokes.
• INTENTIONALITY
  The quality or state of being intentional; purpose; design. Coleridge.
• OBJECTIVENESS
  Objectivity. Is there such a motion or objectiveness of external bodies, which produceth light Sir M. Hale
• DESIGNATE
  Designated; appointed; chosen. Sir G. Buck.
• SCOPELINE
  Scopeloid.
• PURPOSELESS
  Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n.
• STATIONARINESS
  The quality or state of being stationary; fixity.
• BUSINESS
  The position, distribution, and order of persons and properties on the stage of a theater, as determined by the stage manager in rehearsal. 7. Care; anxiety; diligence. Chaucer. To do one's business, to ruin one. Wycherley. -- To make one's
• PLACEMENT
  1. The act of placing, or the state of being placed. 2. Position; place.
• VENTURESOME
  Inclined to venture; not loth to run risk or danger; venturous; bold; daring; adventurous; as, a venturesome boy or act. -- Ven"ture*some*ly, adv. -- Ven"ture*some*ness, n.
• RETRACTOR
  One who, or that which, retracts. Specifically: In breech-loading firearms, a device for withdrawing a cartridge shell from the barrel.
• OFFICEHOLDER
  An officer, particularly one in the civil service; a placeman.
• DISVENTURE
  A disadventure. Shelton.
• CREBRICOSTATE
  Marked with closely set ribs or ridges.
• HAEMATOSCOPE
  A hæmoscope.
• SAGEBRUSH STATE
  Nevada; -- a nickname.
• INDWELLING
  Residence within, as in the heart. The personal indwelling of the Spirit in believers. South.
• POST OFFICE
  See POST
• OLD LINE STATE
  Maryland; a nickname, alluding to the fact that its northern boundary in Mason and Dixon's line.
• MENOSTATION
  See MENOSTASIS
• ENSTATE
  See INSTATE
• WEATHER STATION
  A station for taking meteorological observations, making weather forecasts, or disseminating such information. Such stations are of the first order when they make observations of all the important elements either hourly or by self-registering
• LACTOSCOPE
  An instrument for estimating the amount of cream contained in milk by ascertaining its relative opacity.