1. (n.)region an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body: a region of the earth.
2. region Usu., regions. the vast or indefinite entirety of a space or area, or something compared to one: the regions of the mind.
3. region a part of the earth's surface of considerable and usu. indefinite extent: a tropical region.
4. region a district without respect to boundaries or extent: an industrial region.
5. region a large, indefinite area or range of something specified: a region of authority.
6. region an area of interest, activity, pursuit, etc.; field.
7. region an administrative division of a country, territory, or city.
8. region a major faunal area of the earth's surface, sometimes one regarded as a division of a larger area.
9. region a division or part of the body: the abdominal region.
Etymology: (1300–50; < AF regiun < L regiō direction, line, boundary <regere to rule)
Definition of 'region'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (noun)region, part the extended spatial location of something "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space"
3. (noun)region a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
4. (noun)region, neighborhood 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"
5. (noun)region, realm a knowledgedomain 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"
1. (noun)region a large area of land with particular characteristics the southern wine-growing region; a mountainous region; a region in which fighting has been severe
2. region in the region of approximately a death toll in the region of 2500 people
Definition of 'region'
Webster Dictionary
1. (noun)region one of the grand districts or quarters into which any space or surface, as of the earth or the heavens, is conceived of as divided; hence, in general, a portion of space or territory of indefinite extent; country; province; district; tract
2. (noun)region tract, part, or space, lying about and including anything; neighborhood; vicinity; sphere
3. (noun)region the upper air; the sky; the heavens
4. (noun)region the inhabitants of a district
5. (noun)region place; rank; station
Definitions of 'region'
The Roycroft Dictionary
region A specific, definite space, as distinguished from any other specific, definite space; as, East Aurora, Barren Island, Kalamazoo, Sea Grit, Beverly.
Definitions of region 
Afrikaans: streek
Arabic: إقْليم
Bulgarian: област
Brazilian: região
Czech: kraj, oblast
German: die Region
Danish: region
Greek: περιοχή, περιφέρεια
Spanish: región
Estonian: piirkond
Farsi: منطقه؛ ناحیه
Finnish: alue
French: région
Hebrew: אֶזוֹר
Hindi: प्रदेश क्षेत्र, हिस्सा
Croatian: regija, područje
Hungarian: táj(ék)
Indonesian: kawasan
Icelandic: svæði, umdæmi, hérað
Italian: region
Japanese: 地方
Korean: 지역, 지구
Lithuanian: kraštas, regionas, sritis
Latvian: reģions; rajons; apgabals
Malay: rantau, wilayah
Dutch: streek
Norwegian: område, region
Polish: region, okręg
Persian: منطقه؛ ناحیه
Pashto: سيمه، علاقه، ناحيه منطقه،
Portuguese: região
Romanian: regiune
Russian: область, район
Slovak: kraj, oblasť, región
Slovenian: pokrajina
Serbian: regija
Swedish: region, område, trakt
Thai: ภูมิภาค
Turkish: bölge
Taiwanese: 區域, ，地區
Ukrainian: країна; край
Urdu: علاقہ
Vietnamese: vùng
Chinese: 区域, ，地区
