Synonyms of locales

locales

noun

plural of locale

1

as in locations

the area or space occupied by or intended for something

we found an ideal locale for our annual picnic

Synonyms & Similar Words

• locations
• venues
• places
• sites
• localities
• spots
• positions
• loci
• scenes
• points
• regions
• emplacements
• sections
• precincts
• sectors
• wheres
• theres
• heres

2

as in settings

the place and time in which the action for a portion of a dramatic work (as a movie) is set

the movie's locale is ambiguous, though the architecture and dress are suggestive of 19th-century Europe

Synonyms & Similar Words

• settings
• scenes
• backgrounds
• backdrops
• sets
• sceneries
• tableaux
• mise-en-scènes

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of locales

The song was produced by the Bolt Cutters — Apple, Davíd Garza, Sebastian Steinberg, and Amy Aileen Wood, with each of their parts recorded remotely from locales including Los Angeles, Houston, and from the East Coast. — Althea Legaspi, Rolling Stone, 6 Nov. 2026

Products, such as the Marceau bag and the Montebello bottle holder, take their names from Parisian streets and locales. — Rhonda Richford, Footwear News, 4 Nov. 2026

In the city known as the birthplace of the film industry, Hollywood jobs have been fleeing for years for cheaper locales. — Arkansas Online, 3 Nov. 2026

One for warmer-weather trips to places like Colombia and Mexico and one for cooler-weather locales, like fall and winter in Portugal, Copenhagen, or Japan. — Lauren Mazzo, Travel + Leisure, 31 Oct. 2026

Some from standard locales like Maine and Washington, but also bivalves from Alaska, small oysters from the Gulf Coast and even Baja California. — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 29 Oct. 2026

TeamLab got its start in Tokyo in 2001, but over the years grew from exhibiting in galleries to building its own museum-like spaces, today having permanent locales in Japan, China and Saudi Arabia. — Todd Martens, Los Angeles Times, 29 Oct. 2026

But Fleming's 007, and the onscreen Bonds who played out those stories, dispatched danger in exotic locales, and without rumpling the pleats on their dinner jackets. — Scott Simon, NPR, 24 Oct. 2026

And while suburban or rural locales might offer the luxury of space—a sprawling front yard for your 12-foot skeletons to roam free, for instance—in New York City, the limitations of scale just mean people have to get creative. — Anna Grace Lee, Vogue, 23 Oct. 2026