region

Meanings

• the extended spatial location of something
  • "the farming regions of France"
  • "regions of outer space"
• a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
  • "in the abdominal region"
• a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth
  • "penguins inhabit the polar regions"
• 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"
• a knowledge domain that you are interested in or are communicating about
  • "here we enter the region of opinion"

Synonyms

area, neighborhood, part, realm