not able to connect to localhost in MS SQL Management Studio 2017

I have installed MS SQL Server Management Studio 2017. After installing, when I try to connect to the local host by typing either "127.0.0.1" or "local" or "." (dot) in the server name field, I get following pop up.SQL Server error popup image

When I tried googling things, I got to know that starting SQL server services in services.msc would solve the problem but when I opened services.msc, I couldn't find any service listed which was related to SQL Server Management Studio.

I am a newbie here. Haven't worked with any such tool before. any help would be appreciated.

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Installing Management Studio does not installs SQL Server database engine. You need to install SQL Server also.

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