Locale

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: /ləʊˈkɑːl/
• Rhymes: -ɑːl
• US IPA: /loʊˈkæl/
• Rhymes: -æl

Origin

From French local (adj), nominal use of the adjective.

Full definition of locale

Noun

1. The place where something happens.Being near running water and good shade, the explorers decided it was a good locale for setting up camp.
2. (computing) The set of settings related to the language and region in which a computer program executes. Examples are language, paper format, currency and time formats, character encoding etc.