Meaning

(geography, now rare) Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles)..

Definitions by Sense

1. (geography, now rare) Each of the five regions of the earth's surface into which it was divided by climatic differences, namely the torrid zone (between the tropics), two temperate zones (between the tropics and the polar circles), and two frigid zones (within the polar circles).
2. Any given region or area of the world.
3. A given area distinguished on the basis of a particular characteristic, use, restriction, etc.
4. (by extension) A restricted category or virtual place.
5. A band or area of growth encircling anything.
6. A band or stripe extending around a body.
7. (crystallography) A series of planes having mutually parallel intersections.
8. (baseball, informal) The strike zone.

Example Sentences

And as two Zones doe cut the Heaven upon the righter side, / And other twaine upon the left likewise the same devide, / The middle in outragious heat exceeding all the rest: / Even so likewise through great foresight to God it seemed best, / The earth encluded in the same should so devided bee […].

To avoid which, we will take any pains […]; we will dive to the bottom of the sea, to the bowels of the earth, five, six, seven, eight, nine hundred fathom deep, through all five zones, and both extremes of heat and cold […].

And while idle curiosity may take its walk in shady avenues by the ocean side, commerce[…]defies every wind, outrides every tempest, and invades every zone.

There is a no-smoking zone that extends 25 feet outside of each entrance.

The white zone is for loading and unloading only.

Files in the Internet zone are blocked by default, as a security measure.

The discussion was veering off into a danger zone.

a zone of evergreens on a mountain

Word Forms

• zones
• zoning
• zoned

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When Should You Use Zone?

Use zone when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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