Region

Quick meaning: Region is a noun meaning An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

Meaning

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

More Meanings

1. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
2. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
3. An approximate range.
4. 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.
5. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
6. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

Example Sentences

the polar regions

the temperate regions

the abdominal regions

the equatorial regions

Word Forms

• regions

Synonyms for region

Depending on context, synonyms include domain, realm, part, area, neighborhood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include domain, realm, neighborhood, part, area, province.

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