region

Nouns

  • (n) the extended spatial location of something
    • the farming regions of France
    • religions in all parts of the world
    • regions of outer space
    part,
  • (n) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
    • in the abdominal region
    area,
  • (n) a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
    • penguins inhabit the polar regions
  • (n) 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
    neighborhood,
  • (n) 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
    realm,

Synonyms

part area neighborhood realm

Words of close approximity

regime Regina
regional regional anaesthesia regional anatomy regional anesthesia regional enteritis regional ileitis regionalism regionally