Meaning of region | Babel Free

Definitions

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.
   historical
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.
   historical
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.
   Ontario, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
7. Ellipsis of administrative region.
   abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis
8. A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
9. The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
   figuratively
10. A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
11. An approximate range.
12. Place; rank; station; dignity.
    obsolete
13. The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
    obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“the equatorial regions”

“the temperate regions”

“the polar regions”

“the upper regions of the atmosphere”

“the abdominal regions”

“The average age of the club's members is in the region of 35.”

“he is of too high a region”

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