region in English dictionary

  • region

    Meanings and definitions of "region"

    • 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 or the European Union.
    • (historical) 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.
    • (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
    • (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
    • (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
    • (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
    • (a) place
    • noun
      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.
    • noun
      An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
    • noun
      (historical)
      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.
    • noun
      (figuratively)
      The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
    • noun
      (anatomy)
      A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      Place; rank; station; dignity.
    • noun
      (obsolete)
      The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
    • A designated area or an administrative division of a city, county or larger geographical territory that is formulated according to some biological, political, economic or demographic criteria.
    • Contiguous areas of storage on a disk.
    • A large area or range of something specified but with undefined boundaries.
    • Any considerable and connected part of a space or surface.
    • A tract of land of undefined size.
    • any considerable and connected part of a space or surface
    • an administrative subdivision
    • noun
      a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"
    • noun
      a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
    • noun
      a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region"
    • noun
      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"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"
    • noun
      the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"

    Synonyms of "region" in English dictionary

    area, body part, knowledge base are the top synonyms of "region" in the English thesaurus.

    • area · body part · knowledge base · location · realm · indefinite quantity · neighborhood · knowledge domain · part · domain
    • realm

      a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about; "it was a limited realm of discourse"; "here we enter the region of opinion"; "the realm of the occult"

    • area

      a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region"

    • neighborhood

      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"; "the price is in the neighborhood of $100"

    • part

      the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"

    Grammar and declension of region

    • region ( plural  regions)
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