diff --git a/src/index.ts b/src/index.ts
index ea724d0440e..103746d2c01 100644
--- a/src/index.ts
+++ b/src/index.ts
@@ -8,11 +8,145 @@ export interface FakerOptions {
   localeFallback?: string;
 }
 
+export interface DefinitionTypes {
+  name: string[];
+  address: string[];
+  animal: string[];
+  company: string[];
+  lorem: string[];
+  hacker: string[];
+  phone_number: string[];
+  finance: string[];
+  internet: string[];
+  commerce: string[];
+  database: string[];
+  system: string[];
+  date: string[];
+  vehicle: string[];
+  music: string[];
+  word: string[];
+  title: string | string[];
+  separator: string | string[];
+}
+
 export class Faker {
   locales: string[] | {};
   locale: string;
   localeFallback: string;
 
+  readonly definitions = {};
+  private readonly definitionTypes: DefinitionTypes = {
+    name: [
+      'first_name',
+      'last_name',
+      'prefix',
+      'suffix',
+      'binary_gender',
+      'gender',
+      'title',
+      'male_prefix',
+      'female_prefix',
+      'male_first_name',
+      'female_first_name',
+      'male_middle_name',
+      'female_middle_name',
+      'male_last_name',
+      'female_last_name',
+    ],
+    address: [
+      'city_name',
+      'city_prefix',
+      'city_suffix',
+      'street_suffix',
+      'county',
+      'country',
+      'country_code',
+      'country_code_alpha_3',
+      'state',
+      'state_abbr',
+      'street_prefix',
+      'postcode',
+      'postcode_by_state',
+      'direction',
+      'direction_abbr',
+      'time_zone',
+    ],
+    animal: [
+      'dog',
+      'cat',
+      'snake',
+      'bear',
+      'lion',
+      'cetacean',
+      'insect',
+      'crocodilia',
+      'cow',
+      'bird',
+      'fish',
+      'rabbit',
+      'horse',
+      'type',
+    ],
+    company: [
+      'adjective',
+      'noun',
+      'descriptor',
+      'bs_adjective',
+      'bs_noun',
+      'bs_verb',
+      'suffix',
+    ],
+    lorem: ['words'],
+    hacker: ['abbreviation', 'adjective', 'noun', 'verb', 'ingverb', 'phrase'],
+    phone_number: ['formats'],
+    finance: [
+      'account_type',
+      'transaction_type',
+      'currency',
+      'iban',
+      'credit_card',
+    ],
+    internet: [
+      'avatar_uri',
+      'domain_suffix',
+      'free_email',
+      'example_email',
+      'password',
+    ],
+    commerce: [
+      'color',
+      'department',
+      'product_name',
+      'price',
+      'categories',
+      'product_description',
+    ],
+    database: ['collation', 'column', 'engine', 'type'],
+    system: ['mimeTypes', 'directoryPaths'],
+    date: ['month', 'weekday'],
+    vehicle: [
+      'vehicle',
+      'manufacturer',
+      'model',
+      'type',
+      'fuel',
+      'vin',
+      'color',
+    ],
+    music: ['genre'],
+    word: [
+      'adjective',
+      'adverb',
+      'conjunction',
+      'interjection',
+      'noun',
+      'preposition',
+      'verb',
+    ],
+    title: '',
+    separator: '',
+  };
+
   seedValue?: any[] | any;
 
   readonly mersenne: Mersenne = new Mersenne();
@@ -23,6 +157,46 @@ export class Faker {
     this.locales = this.locales || opts.locales || {};
     this.locale = this.locale || opts.locale || 'en';
     this.localeFallback = this.localeFallback || opts.localeFallback || 'en';
+
+    this.loadDefinitions(this.definitionTypes);
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * Load the definitions contained in the locales file for the given types
+   *
+   * @param types
+   */
+  private loadDefinitions(types: DefinitionTypes): void {
+    Object.keys(types).forEach((t: string) => {
+      if (typeof this.definitions[t] === 'undefined') {
+        this.definitions[t] = {};
+      }
+
+      if (typeof types[t] === 'string') {
+        this.definitions[t] = types[t];
+        return;
+      }
+
+      types[t].forEach((p) => {
+        Object.defineProperty(this.definitions[t], p, {
+          get: () => {
+            if (
+              typeof this.locales[this.locale][t] === 'undefined' ||
+              typeof this.locales[this.locale][t][p] === 'undefined'
+            ) {
+              // certain localization sets contain less data then others.
+              // in the case of a missing definition, use the default localeFallback
+              // to substitute the missing set data
+              // throw new Error('unknown property ' + d + p)
+              return this.locales[this.localeFallback][t][p];
+            } else {
+              // return localized data
+              return this.locales[this.locale][t][p];
+            }
+          },
+        });
+      });
+    });
   }
 
   seed(value?: any[] | any) {
@@ -30,6 +204,15 @@ export class Faker {
     this.random = new Random(this, this.seedValue);
     this.datatype = new Datatype(this, this.seedValue);
   }
+
+  /**
+   * Set Faker's locale
+   *
+   * @param locale
+   */
+  setLocale(locale: string): void {
+    this.locale = locale;
+  }
 }
 
 export default Faker;