region
noun
Simple meaning
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ˈɹidʒən
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Definition
Everyday modern meanings first, grouped by part of speech.
noun
An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
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.
An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
The approximate amount of something (usually used prepositionally as in `in the region of')
“It was going to take in the region of two or three months to finish the job.”
A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
An approximate range.
Word at a Glance
- Difficulty
- A1 · Beginner
- Frequency
- Very Common
- Typical Use
- Everyday English
Word Aura™
How this word commonly comes across.
Aura for this meaning
This meaning: 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.
Used this way, region is a reasonably familiar word that usually carries little praise or criticism of its own. This sense is used where position and measurement matter — travel, weather and flight — so it reads as factual rather than emotive.
- Emotional tone
- Neutral
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Not strongly marked
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Matter-of-fact
- Usage feel
- Neutral and straightforward
Where it naturally appears
- Geography/travel
- Weather/aviation
- Technical/specialist writing
Word Aura describes common impressions, not a measurement. Tone changes with sentence, speaker, relationship and situation.
More ways to use region
- “The farming regions of France.”noun
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Common Patterns and Combinations
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Word Family
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Word family
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Related to the extended spatial location of something.
In a regional manner.
Compound terms
Established multiword terms.
A region of the ionosphere (from 50 to 90 miles up) that reflects radio waves of medium length.
The highest region of the ionosphere (from 90 to 600 miles up) which contains the highest concentration of free electrons and is most useful for long-range radio transmission.
A geographical subdivision of France.
A demarcated area of the Earth.
A demarcated area of the Earth.
The abode of Satan and the forces of evil.
Related words
Connected by subject or meaning, not by word formation.
A feature (as a pronunciation or expression or custom) that is characteristic of a particular region.
The study of anatomy based on regions or divisions of the body and emphasizing the relations between various structures (muscles and nerves and arteries etc.) in that region.
Loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the…
Loss of sensation in a region of the body produced by application of an anesthetic agent to all the nerves supplying that region (as when an epidural anesthetic is administered to the…
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