region
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /ˈɹiːd͡ʒn̩/
note: Indic
ipa: /ˈɾidʒ(ɪ)ən/
rhymes: -iːdʒən
Forms: form: regions
Etymology: From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regiō, from regō. Doublet of regio.
Senses: examples: text: the equatorial regions
text: the temperate regions
text: the polar regions
text: the upper regions of the atmosphere
glosses: 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.
glosses: 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.
glosses: An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
glosses: An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
glosses: An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
Ellipsis of regional municipality, a county-level municipality.
glosses: An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
Ellipsis of administrative region.
glosses: 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.
glosses: The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
examples: text: the abdominal regions
topics: anatomy
medicine
sciences
glosses: A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
examples: text: The average age of the club's members is in the region of 35.
glosses: An approximate range.
examples: text: he is of too high a region
ref: c. 1597 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merry Wiues of Windsor”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:
glosses: Place; rank; station; dignity.
glosses: The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
Hyponyms: abdominal region
airmass source region
autonomous region
Bluegrass region
Cardamom region
complementary region
corrugated filamentary region
D region
eco-region
E region
flight information region
F region
H II region
intergenic region
nether region
pubic region
rejection region
special administrative region
statistical region
Sylhet region
Derived terms: attainable region theory
bioregion
eigenregion
ergoregion
ethnoregion
Euroregion
georegion
interregion
in the region of
macroregion
Mediterranean region
megaregion
meso-region
mesoregion
micro-region
microregion
midregion
multiregion
nanoregion
National Capital Region
netherregion
regiolect
regionalect
region-beta paradox
region code
regioned
region-free
region free
regionful
regioning
regionism
regionist
regionless
regionlet
region-locked
region rat
region-wide
regionwide
subregion
superregion
transregionate
Whitewater Region
zooregion
Related terms: regional
regionally
regionarius
regionary
regionic