region
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
region/ˈriːʤən/
▶noun
- 1 an area of a country or the world having definable characteristics but not always fixed boundaries.
■ an administrative district of a city or country.
- 2 a part of the body, especially around or near an organ.
– phrases
in the region of approximately.
in the region of approximately.
– origin ME: from OFr., from L. regio(n-) ‘direction, district’, from regere ‘to rule, direct’.
'region' also found in these Oxford entries:
acinus
- across
- active site
- active transport
- Adriatic
- Aegean
- air pocket
- Amhara
- annulus
- Antarctic
- anterior
- aragonite
- Araucanian
- Arcadian
- Arcady
- area
- Armorican
- artesian
- Australasian
- avifauna
- ayahuasca
- Aymara
- azimuthal projection
- backwoods
- Bactrian
- Balkanize
- balloon catheter
- Balti
- banana belt
- Bardolino
- batfish
- Bavarian
- Béarnaise sauce
- Beaune
- Beringian
- bioregion
- biota
- biotope
- black hole
- Bohemian
- botany
- breadbasket
- breast
- Broca's area
- bundu
- Burgundian
- Bushveld
- calabrese
- Calvados
- candiru
