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Meaning of 'region' (Webster Dictionary)

1 . Region [ n.]
- One of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract.
- Tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere.
- The upper air; the sky; the heavens.
- The inhabitants of a district.
- Place; rank; station.

Meaning of 'region' (Princeton's WordNet)

1 . region [ n]
Meaning (1):
- a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
Example in sentence:
  • here we enter the region of opinion;
  • it was a limited realm of discourse;
  • the realm of the occult
Meaning (2):
- a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
Example in sentence:
  • in the abdominal region
Meaning (3):
- the approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
Example in sentence:
  • 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
Meaning (4):
- a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
Example in sentence:
  • penguins inhabit the polar regions
Meaning (5):
- the extended spatial location of something
Example in sentence:
  • regions of outer space;
  • religions in all parts of the world;
  • the farming regions of France

Nearby Words:

regain regal regale regaled regalement regaler regalia regalian regaling regalism

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