region

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noun

1. the extended spatial location of something (Freq. 65)
- the farming regions of France
- religions in all parts of the world
- regions of outer space
• Syn:
part
• Hypernyms:
location
• Hyponyms:
atmosphere, air, biosphere, depth, interplanetary space,
interstellar space, heliosphere, intergalactic space, deep space, aerospace, zone,
belt, bottom, county, distance, Eden, paradise,
nirvana, heaven, promised land, Shangri-la, extremity, hell,
hell on earth, hellhole, snake pit, the pits, inferno, inside,
interior, ionosphere, layer, outside, exterior, radius,
side, vacuum, vacuity, top, zodiac, sign of the zodiac,
star sign, sign, mansion, house, planetary house, Papua,
Sind, black hole, Kuiper belt, Edgeworth-Kuiper belt, mare, maria
• Instance Hyponyms:
D-layer, D region, Appleton layer, F layer, F region,
Heaviside layer, Kennelly-Heaviside layer, E layer, E region, Achaea, Doris,
Cynoscephalae, Transylvania, Witwatersrand, Rand, Reef
2. a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve (Freq. 5)
- in the abdominal region
• Syn:
area
• Hypernyms:
body part
• Hyponyms:
erogenous zone, pressure point, hypochondrium, area of cardiac dullness, epigastrium,
fovea, fovea centralis, parafovea, macula, macula lutea, macular area,
yellow spot, cortical area, cortical region, perineum, side, cleavage,
areola, ring of color, middle, midriff, midsection, waist,
waistline, pubes, pubic region, loins, palm, thenar,
thenar, half-moon, lunula, lunule, groin,
inguen, quick
3. a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth (Freq. 2)
- penguins inhabit the polar regions
• Hypernyms:
location
• Hyponyms:
area, country, backwater, breadbasket, theater of war,
theatre of war, field, field of operations, theater, theater of operations, theatre,
theatre of operations, zone of interior, district, territory, territorial dominion, dominion,
domain, demesne, land, northland, southland, geographical area,
geographic area, geographical region, geographic region, biogeographical region, heartland, irredenta,
irredenta, antipodes, unknown, unknown region, terra incognita,
testing ground, laboratory
• Instance Hyponyms:
Old World, Far East, West, Occident, French West Indies
4. a knowledge domain 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
• Syn:
realm
• Hypernyms:
knowledge domain, knowledge base, domain
5. 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
• Syn:
neighborhood
• Hypernyms:
indefinite quantity

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  realm, neighborhood, area, part