| region | |
| 1. n. 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 | |
| the equatorial regions | |
| the temperate regions | |
| the polar regions | |
| the upper regions of the atmosphere | |
| 2. n. An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country or the European Union. | |
| 3. n. (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. | |
| 4. n. (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country. | |
| 5. n. (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated. | |
| the abdominal regions | |
| 6. n. (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity. | |
| 7. n. (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region. | |
