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say it: zohn
zone is a noun and verb meaning "a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features". It carries 6 recorded senses.
a locally circumscribed place characterized by some distinctive features
any of the regions of the surface of the Earth loosely divided according to latitude or longitude
an area or region distinguished from adjacent parts by a distinctive feature or characteristic
(anatomy) any encircling or beltlike structure
anatomy
separate or apportion into sections
“partition a room off”
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 zone 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.