region
[noun]
Synonyms: area, district, locality, part, place, quarter, section, sector, territory, tract, zone

---

Related Words: neighborhood, vicinity, division, part, section, sector

---

English Thesaurus: area, region, zone, district, the business/financial/theatre etc district, ...

[TahlilGaran] English Synonym Dictionary ▲

re‧gion S1 W1 AC /ˈriːdʒən/ noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: region, regionalism; adverb: regionally; adjective: regional]
[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Old French; Origin: Latin regio, from regere; ⇒ regent]

1. a large area of a country or of the world, usually without exact limits Synonym : area:
efforts to bring peace to the region
region of
the Choco region of Columbia
coastal/border/central etc region
Flooding is likely in some coastal regions of the Northeast during the early part of the week.

2. a particular part of someone’s body Synonym : area:
the lower back region
region of
a region of the brain

3. (somewhere) in the region of something used to describe an amount of time, money etc without being exact:
a grant somewhere in the region of £2,500

4. the regions British English the parts of a country that are away from the capital city:
a government policy to relocate jobs from the capital to the regions

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

region
noun
I. area of land/part of a country
ADJ. large | small | entire, whole | distinct, particular, specific | northern, southern, etc. | central | border, far-flung, outlying, peripheral, remote | neighbouring, surrounding | unexplored | geographical | arid, coastal, desert, equatorial, jungle, mountain/mountainous, polar, tropical | Basque, Gulf, London, Pacific, etc. | autonomous | urbanized | rural | populated a sparsely populated region
economic | developed, industrial | developing | depressed, poor, underdeveloped the poorer regions of the continent
prosperous, rich Italy's richest region
oil-producing, etc.
VERB + REGION inhabit, live in Nomads have inhabited this region for thousands of years.
work in | leave | visit | divide sth into The country is divided into 17 autonomous regions.
confine sb/sth to This bird is largely confined to the southern regions of the country.
REGION + VERB cover sb/sth The champagne-producing region covers 34,500 hectares.
PREP. across a/the ~ Sports events across the region have been cancelled because of the weather.
from a/the ~ Twenty participants from the Asia-Pacific region will be invited to the seminar.
in/within a/the ~ The animal is found in the northern regions of Sweden.
in the ~ of (figurative) She earns in the region of (= approximately) £200,000.
throughout a/the ~ The plant is found throughout the western regions of the country.
PHRASES sth varies from region to region Sanitary facilities varied widely from region to region.

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

region
II. part of the body
ADJ. distinct, particular, specific | brain, etc.
PREP. from a/the ~ tissue from the mouth region
in/within a/the ~ cells in a particular region of the brain

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

area a part of a town or country, or of the world:
They live in a very wealthy area.
coastal areas
region a large area of a country or the world:
the northwest region of Russia
desert regions
zone an area that is different from other areas around it in some way:
a war zone
a no-parking zone
We crossed two different time zonesareas where there is a particular time compared to the rest of the world.
district one of the areas a city or town is officially divided into, or an area of a city where a particular group live or an activity happens:
the Chelsea district of Manhattan
⇒ the business/financial/theatre etc district:
the financial district of London
neighbourhood British English
, neighborhood American English /ˈneɪbəhʊd $ -ər-/ an area of a town where people live:
a friendly neighbourhood
There are lots of trees in our neighborhood.
suburb an area outside the centre of a city, where people live:
a suburb of Boston
quarter an area of a town or city where people of a particular nationality live:
the French quarter of New Orleans
slum an area of a city that is in very bad condition, where many poor people live:
He grew up in the slums of East London.
ghetto an area of a city where poor people of a particular race or class live:
a black baby born in the ghetto

[TahlilGaran] English Thesaurus ▲