Locate Meaning
/lə(ʊ)ˈkeɪt/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
verbTo place; to set in a particular spot or position.
verbTo find out where something is located.
Sentence Examples
Locate Puerto Rico on a map.
I became very nervous when I couldn't locate my passport.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Using a map, the hikers tried to ____ the hidden treasure in the forest.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I was finally able to ____ my lost car keys under the sofa after searching for them for more than an hour.
Word Origin & History
Borrowed from Latin locātus, perfect passive participle of locō (“to place”) (see -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from locus (“place”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French louer; see also local and lieu.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"The captives and emigrants whom he brought with him were located in the trans-Tiberine quarter."
— 1881, Brooke Foss Westcott, The New Testament in the Original Greek:
"The ability to shift profits to low-tax countries by locating intellectual property in them, which is then licensed to related businesses in high-tax countries, is often assumed to be the preserve of high-tech companies."
— 2013 June 22, “T time”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8841, page 68:
"In the past two years, NASA’s Kepler Space Telescope has located nearly 3,000 exoplanet candidates ranging from sub-Earth-sized minions to gas giants that dwarf our own Jupiter. Their densities range from that of styrofoam to iron."
— 2013 May-June, Kevin Heng, “Why Does Nature Form Exoplanets Easily?”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 184:
"The Bat—they called him the Bat.[…]. He[…]played a lone hand,[…]. Most lone wolves had a moll at any rate—women were their ruin—but if the Bat had a moll, not even the grapevine telegraph could locate her."
— 1920, Mary Roberts Rinehart, Avery Hopwood, chapter I, in The Bat: A Novel from the Play (Dell Book; 241), New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Company, →OCLC, page 01:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Using a map, the hikers tried to ____ the hidden treasure in the forest.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
I was finally able to ____ my lost car keys under the sofa after searching for them for more than an hour.