Region

What do we mean by region?

A large, usually continuous segment of a surface or space. noun

A portion of the earth's surface distinguished from others by some characteristic. noun

A bioregion. noun

A political district or unit, often with its adjacent lands. noun

An area of the body having natural or arbitrarily assigned boundaries. noun

An area of interest or activity; a sphere. noun

An approximate degree or amount. noun

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, place without special reference to location or extent: as, the equatorial regions; the temperate regions; the polar regions; the upper regions of the atmosphere. noun

An administrative division of a city or territory; specifically, 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 (modern rione). noun

Figuratively, the inhabitants of a region or district of country. noun

In anatomy, a place in or a part of the body in any way indicated: as, the abdominal regions. noun

Place; rank; station; dignity. noun

Specifically, the space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region. noun

In zoögeog., a large faunal area variously limited by different authors. noun

Of the thorax, same as inframammary region. noun

Synonyms Quarter, locality, clime, territory. noun

In the plan of excavations at Pompeii, one of the primary divisions introduced by Fiorelli about 1860. The arrangement is based on a misconception but has nevertheless been retained. Each region contains several blocks or insulæ. noun

In phytogeography: A mountain belt marked by peculiar floral types; an altitudinal zone. Thus used by Humboldt, who for the equatorial district of the Andes distinguished nine such regions. Schimper also prefers this term to zone in treating of mountain belts. He distinguishes, on purely œcological grounds, basal, montane, and alpine mountain regions. noun

A comprehensive territorial unit with sufficient uniformity of conditions to secure uniformity in vegetation. A region will include several formations and will itself be included in some larger unit, as a realm. noun

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.

An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.

The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.

A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.

Place; rank; station; dignity.

The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.

Words that are spelled similarly to region:
region, legion, regin, regio, regian.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word region:
pomerania, lombardy, commune, slovenia, piedmont, slovakia, ghana, czech, tanzania, statistical, municipality, altitude, covers, inhabited, lies, borders, regions, southeast, inhabitants, farming, northeast, southwest, northwest, situated, dvd, settlement, southeastern, warm, peru, province.

Words that rhyme with region:
legion, norwegian, collegian, regin, siegen, taejon, new norwegian, american legion, feagin, deja un, frege in, lege in, li jin, li jun, liege in, seige in, shi jin, shi jun, siege in, wege in, xie jin.

Adjectives that are often used to describe region:
whole, central, entire, particular, lumbar, southern, northern, coastal, western, cervical, eastern, lower, active, upper, vast, mountainous, critical, asian, geographic, visible, middle, anterior, posterior, left, temporal, thoracic, geographical, occipital, agricultural, metropolitan, arid, rich, terminal, frontal, sub, atlantic, feasible, remote, inguinal, autonomous, infrared, appalachian, shaded, fertile, east, equatorial, linear, narrow, wild, outer, himalayan, apical, abdominal, baltic, south, pelvic, north, polar, intermediate, inner, anal, andean, variable, epigastric, hilly, urban, extensive, untranslated, limited, sacral, tropical, west.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective region:
model, genes, building, basis, based, states, epoxides, method, analysis, approach, doctrine, soils, heights, problem, differences, structure, case, domains, sequence, irregularities, interest, economy, state, specific, fans, fig, countries, concept, effects, operation, mutations, antigens, framework, origin, boundary, altitudes, theory, body, storms, strategy, results, relationship, hypothesis, map, plants, allotypes, inequality, subgroups, behavior, growing, version, comparisons, industry, domain, fragments, exons, temperatures, plan, lines, fields, start, charge, derivatives, variations, survey, name, echoes, table, chemistry, constraint, ionosphere, formulation, segments, technique, pattern, capacitances, wide, city, cooperation, diffuse, reactors, winds, molecules, serving, increases.

Consonant match to region:
rejoin, regin, rugine, ragin, rage in, rajah in, ridge in, ridge inn, rodgin, rudge in, rue jean, rue jeanne, ruge in.

Words that sound like region:
region, regian, reagin, rejoin, regin, rajan, regine, rajen, ragin, regem, reagan, regan, reagen, reagon, russian, ration, regions, rian, regent, reagent, roshan, aeration, reon, raeann, regence, rage on, rushen, rochon, rijn, wreathen, reja, aration, rachen, erration, raging, reaching, rushin, regena, rochin, ridging, rich in, rogan, rogen, regen, ragan, ragen, rugen, ray gun, riggan, reason, origin, rican, rowan, rohan, rayon, raja, redone, grecian, rion, rajah, rejoined, rhian, origen, resen, renin, rayyan, riemann, origine, riam, reden, ringen, rashawn, reum, regio, pridgen, renan, regia, redan, rejoins, riesen, rashaun, cretian, reune, reaktion, rayen, riggio, prejean, rhyton, rauen, refin, rejo, harijan, rieken, rektion, orogen, rejourn, riechen, rehung, rejoint, retia.