neolocal

[nee-oh-loh-kuhl]

adjective

Anthropology.

1. living or located away from both the husband's and the wife's relatives.

   a neolocal family.

Word History and Origins

Origin of neolocal¹

First recorded in 1945–50; neo- + local

Example Sentences

Ultimately these Shoshone were bilocal and neolocal.

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Ultimately, the mounted Shoshone may be just as profitably looked on as neolocal, as were the western Shoshone, for the couple did not necessarily live with or adjacent to either mate's parents.

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