region

Plural: regions

Noun

• A large area of land, usually without exact boundaries.
• the extended spatial location of something
  • "the farming regions of France"
  • "regions of outer space"
• a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
  • "in the abdominal region"
• a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
  • "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
• the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
  • "it was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job"
• a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
  • "here we enter the region of opinion"
• Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface; specifically, a tract of land or sea of considerable but indefinite extent; a country; a district; in a broad sense, a place without special reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
• An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
• Such a division of the city of Rome and of the territory about Rome, of which the number varied at different times; a district, quarter, or ward.
• An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
• An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
• An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
• A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
• An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
• Ellipsis of regional municipality, a county-level municipality.
• An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
• Ellipsis of administrative region.
• An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
• Ellipsis of administrative region.
• A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
• The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
• A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
• An approximate range.
• Place; rank; station; dignity.
• The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

Examples

• He scanned the entire Scrabble board, looking for scoring opportunities in every region.
• the abdominal regions
• The average age of the club's members is in the region of 35.
• the equatorial regions
• the polar regions
• the temperate regions
• the upper regions of the atmosphere

Synonyms

area, neighborhood, part, realm

Related Words

regional, regionally, regionarius, regionary, regionic