Loading page
say it: REE-juhn
region is a noun meaning "the extended spatial location of something". It is pronounced /ˈɹidʒən/ — REE-juhn. It carries 5 recorded senses.
the extended spatial location of something
“the farming regions of France”
“religions in all parts of the world”
“regions of outer space”
a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
“in the abdominal region”
a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
“penguins inhabit the polar regions”
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”
“the price is in the neighborhood of $100”
a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
“it was a limited realm of discourse”
“here we enter the region of opinion”
“the realm of the occult”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for region come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.