Region
English
Noun
Region (plural Regions)- 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.
- the equatorial regions
- the temperate regions
- the polar regions
- the upper regions of the atmosphere
- An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union.
- (historical) 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.
- (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
- (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
- the abdominal regions
- (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
- (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
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Adjectives for Region
devastated; tenuous; remote; spiritual; considerable; untraversed; indiscriminate; saturnine; shadowy; equatorial; ugly; raw dreaded; airy; desolate; dreary; caudal mountainous; fertile; wild; antique; inland nobler; ionized; humid; lonely; unfooted icy; enchanting; dense; inspiring; equinoctial; interesting; grazing; sequestered; burning; afflicted; constellated; empyreal; disputed; mystical; sterile; ravaged; subterranean; celestial; frontal; arid; unknown; reflecting; barbarous; purer; inferior; boundless; embryonic; hospitable; romantic; idyllic; prolific; unexplored; neighboring; condensed; immense; atmospheric; forest; extensive; infernal; crooked; habitable; healthy; industrial; untrod; low; lumbar; cardiac; gloomy; wooded; enchanted; picturesque; blooming; tropical; imperiled; agricultural; rarefied; adjacent; hypogastric; limited; uncultivated; fruitful; exhausted; semibarbarous; lacustrine; insulated; bleak; ill-defined; thrilling.
Verbs for Region
bound—; divide—; dominate—; dwell in —; endow—with; evacuate—; fortify—; infest—; inhabit—; invade—; locate in—; mark—; migrate to—; occupy—; rule—; settle in—; skirt—; visit—.
Thesaurus
Kreis, abode, acres, alluvion, alluvium, ambit, arable land, archbishopric, archdiocese, area, arrondissement, bailiwick, bearings, belt, bench mark, bishopric, borough, canton, city, clay, clod, commune, congressional district, constablewick, county, crust, demesne, departement, department, diocese, dirt, district, division, domain, dominion, dry land, duchy, dust, earth, electoral district, electorate, emplacement, field, freehold, glebe, government, grassland, ground, hamlet, hole, hundred, jurisdiction, land, landholdings, latitude and longitude, lieu, lithosphere, locale, locality, location, locus, magistracy, marginal land, marl, metropolis, metropolitan area, mold, neighborhood, oblast, okrug, pale, parish, part, pinpoint, place, placement, point, position, precinct, principality, province, quarter, real estate, real property, regolith, riding, section, sector, sheriffalty, sheriffwick, shire, shrievalty, site, situation, situs, sod, soil, soke, sphere, spot, stake, state, stead, subaerial deposit, subsoil, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, topsoil, town, township, tract, vicinity, village, walk, wapentake, ward, whereabout, whereabouts, woodland, zone
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman regiun < Latin regio, regionem < regere.
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -iːdʒən
Translations
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References
- Region in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
Anagrams
German
Noun
Region f. (genitive Region, plural Regionen</span>)
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Serbo-Croatian
Noun
regìōn m. (Cyrillic spelling регѝо̄н)
- (Bosnian, Serbian): region
Alternative forms
- (Croatian): rȇgija
Etymology
From Latin regiō
Declension
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | regìōn | regioni |
| genitive | regióna | regiona |
| dative | regionu | regionima |
| accusative | region | regione |
| vocative | regione | regioni |
| locative | regionu | regionima |
| instrumental | regionom | regionima |
Swedish
Noun
Region c.
Declension
| singular | plural | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Common | indefinite | definite | indefinite | definite |
| nominative | Region | Regionen | Regioner | Regionerna |
| genitive | Regions | Regionens | Regioners | Regionernas |
