location

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ləʊˈkeɪʃən/
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• General-American: /loʊˈkeɪʃən/
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• rhymes with -eɪʃən
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• CMU ARPABET: L OW0 K EY1 SH AH0 N Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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Borrowed from Latin locatio, locationis (“a placing”), from locare (“to place, put, set, let”), from locus (“a place”). Equivalent to locate + -ion.

154 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Albanian: vend — place
• Arabic: مَوْقِع (mawqiʕ) — place
• Arabic: مَكَان (makān) — place
• Arabic: مَوْضِع (mawḍiʕ) — place
• Arabic: مكان (makān) — place
• Arabic: بلاصة (blāṣa) — place
• Azerbaijani: yer — place
• Azerbaijani: qonuq — place
• Belarusian: месцазнахо́джанне (mjescaznaxódžannje) — place
• Belarusian: стано́вішча (stanóvišča) — place
• Belarusian: ме́сца (mjésca) — place
• Bengali: জায়গা (jaẏga) — place
• Bengali: স্থান (sthan) — place
• Bulgarian: мя́сто (mjásto) — place
• Bulgarian: местоположе́ние (mestopoložénie) — place
• Catalan: ubicació — place
• Chinese Mandarin: 位置 (wèizhi) — place
• Chinese Mandarin: 場所 /场所 (chǎngsuǒ) — place
• Chinese Mandarin: 地點 /地点 (dìdiǎn) — place
• Chinese Mandarin: 地方 (dìfang) — place
• Czech: poloha — place
• Czech: umístění — place
• Czech: místo — place
• Danish: beliggenhed — place
• Danish: sted — place
• Danish: plads — place
• Dutch: plaats — place
• Dutch: locatie — place
• Esperanto: loko — place
• Esperanto: situo — place
• Estonian: asukoht — place
• Estonian: ruum — place
• Finnish: paikka — place
• Finnish: sijainti — place
• French: lieu — place
• French: localisation — place
• French: situation — place
• French: emplacement — place
• French: position — place
• Georgian: მდებარეობა (mdebareoba) — place
• Georgian: ადგილმდებარეობა (adgilmdebareoba) — place
• Georgian: ადგილი (adgili) — place
• Georgian: ადგილსამყოფელი (adgilsamq̇opeli) — place
• German: Lage — place
• German: Ort — place
• German: Platz — place
• German: Standort — place
• Gothic: 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌸𐍃 (staþs) — place
• Greek: τοποθεσία (topothesía) — place
• Greek: θέση (thési) — place
• Hindi: अवस्थिति (avsthiti) — place
• Icelandic: staðsetning — place
• Icelandic: staður — place
• Italian: posizione — place
• Italian: ubicazione — place
• Japanese: 位置 (ichi) — place
• Japanese: 場所 (basho) — place
• Japanese: 地点 (chiten) — place
• Khmer: ស្ថាន (sthaan) — place
• Khmer: ថាន (thaan) — place
• Korean: 위치 (wichi) — place
• Korean: 장소 (jangso) — place
• Korean: 지점 (jijeom) — place
• Lao: ສະຖານ (sa thān) — place
• Latin: locus — place
• Macedonian: место (mesto) — place
• Macedonian: местоположба (mestopoložba) — place
• Macedonian: локација (lokacija) — place
• Māori: taiwhanga — place
• Māori: wāhi — place
• Māori: tauwāhi — place
• Norwegian Bokmål: sted — place
• Norwegian Bokmål: beliggenhet — place
• Norwegian Nynorsk: stad — place
• Church Slavic: мѣсто (město) — place
• Old English: stow — place
• Persian: جایگاه (jâygâh) — place
• Persian: محل (mahall) — place
• Persian: مکان (makân) — place
• Plautdietsch: Städ — place
• Polish: lokalizacja — place
• Polish: położenie — place
• Polish: miejsce — place
• Portuguese: local — place
• Portuguese: localização — place
• Romanian: localizarea — place
• Russian: положе́ние (položénije) — place
• Russian: местоположе́ние (mestopoložénije) — place
• Russian: местонахожде́ние (mestonaxoždénije) — place
• Russian: расположе́ние (raspoložénije) — place
• Russian: пози́ция (pozícija) — place
• Russian: ме́сто (mésto) — place
• Serbo-Croatian: ме̏сто — place
• Serbo-Croatian: мје̏сто — place
• Serbo-Croatian: лока́ција — place
• Serbo-Croatian: mȅsto — place
• Serbo-Croatian: mjȅsto — place
• Serbo-Croatian: lokácija — place
• Sinhalese: ස්ථානය (sthānaya) — place
• Slovak: poloha — place
• Slovak: umiestnenie — place
• Slovak: miesto — place
• Slovene: lokacija — place
• Slovene: mesto — place
• Slovene: kraj — place
• Spanish: ubicación — place
• Spanish: locación — place
• Spanish: localización — place
• Swedish: läge — place
• Swedish: plats — place
• Tajik: ҷойгоҳ (joygoh) — place
• Tajik: макон (makon) — place
• Tajik: маҳалл (mahall) — place
• Tajik: маҳал (mahal) — place
• Thai: ตําแหน่ง (dtam-nɛ̀ng) — place
• Thai: สถานที่ (sà-tǎan-tîi) — place
• Thai: ที่ (tîi) — place
• Tocharian B: wṣeñña — place
• Tocharian B: īke — place
• Turkish: konum — place
• Turkish: yer — place
• Turkish: lokasyon — place
• Ottoman Turkish: مكان (mekân) — place
• Ugaritic: 𐎎𐎋𐎐𐎚 (mknt) — place
• Ukrainian: місцеполо́ження (miscepolóžennja) — place
• Ukrainian: поло́ження (polóžennja) — place
• Ukrainian: розташува́ння (roztašuvánnja) — place
• Ukrainian: мі́сце (mísce) — place
• Ukrainian: місцезнаходження (misceznaxodžennja) — place
• Vietnamese: vị trí — place
• Vietnamese: địa điểm — place
• Belarusian: размяшчэ́нне (razmjaščénnje) — act of locating
• Bulgarian: разпола́гане (razpolágane) — act of locating
• Catalan: ubicació — act of locating
• Danish: lokalisering — act of locating
• Finnish: sijoittaminen — act of locating
• Georgian: ლოკაცია (loḳacia) — act of locating
• German: Ortsbestimmung — act of locating
• German: Ortsermittlung — act of locating
• German: Ortung — act of locating
• German: Lokalisierung — act of locating
• German: Lokalisation — act of locating
• Italian: collocamento — act of locating
• Italian: collocazione — act of locating
• Japanese: 配置 (haichi) — act of locating
• Japanese: 設置 (setchi) — act of locating
• Polish: lokacja — act of locating
• Portuguese: localização — act of locating
• Russian: размеще́ние (razmeščénije) — act of locating
• Slovene: lociranje — act of locating
• Spanish: ubicación — act of locating
• Spanish: localización — act of locating
• Swedish: lokalisering — act of locating
• Swahili: kata — administrative region in Kenya