English Explanatory Dictionary

region

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. 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.
  2. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
  3. 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.
  4. An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
  5. A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
  6. Ellipsis of regional municipality, a county-level municipality.
  7. Ellipsis of administrative region.
  8. A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
  9. The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
  10. A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
  11. An approximate range.
  12. Place; rank; station; dignity.

Pronunciation

/ˈɹiːd͡ʒn̩/ /ˈɾidʒ(ɪ)ən/ en-us-region.ogg

Word forms

region regions

Etymology

From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regiō, from regō. Doublet of regio.

Related words

regional regionally regionarius regionary regionic

Derived words

attainable region theory bioregion crowdion eigenregion ergoregion ethnoregion Euroregion georegion Ilocos Region interregion in the region of macroregion Mediterranean region megaregion mesoregion meso-region 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

Translations

Arabic: إِقْلِيم Aragonese: rechión Armenian: մարզ Asturian: rexón Azerbaijani: vilayət Bashkir: төбәк Basque: eskualde Belarusian: во́бласць Bulgarian: о́бласт Catalan: regió Chinese Mandarin: 大區 /大区 Chinese Mandarin: 區 /区 Chinese Mandarin: 州 Corsican: regione Corsican: reghjone Danish: region Dutch: regio Dutch: gewest Finnish: alue French: région Galician: rexión Georgian: რეგიონი Georgian: მხარე German: Bezirk German: Gau German: Region Hebrew: מָחוֹז Hindi: प्रदेश Hindi: क्षेत्र Hindi: मंडल Hindi: खंड Hindi: अंचल Icelandic: hérað Ido: regiono Igbo: mkpaghara Indonesian: daerah Ingrian: oblasti Interlingua: region Irish: réigiún Italian: regione Japanese: 地方 Japanese: 県 Kazakh: аймақ Khmer: តំបន់ Korean: 도 Korean: 지방 Korean: 성 Korean: 주 Central Kurdish: ناوچە Kyrgyz: аймак Lao: ຈັງຫວັດ Lao: ແຂວງ Latin: regio Malayalam: പ്രദേശം Marathi: प्रदेश Moore: reezõ
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