Definitions for region

region re·gion

Spelling: [ree-juh n]
IPA: /ˈri dʒən/

Region is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 113 anagrams from letters in region (eginor).

Definitions for region

noun

  1. an extensive, continuous part of a surface, space, or body:
  2. Usually, regions. the vast or indefinite entirety of a space or area, or something compared to one:
  3. a part of the earth's surface (land or sea) of considerable and usually indefinite extent:
  4. a district without respect to boundaries or extent:
  5. a part or division of the universe, as the heavens:
  6. a large indefinite area or range of something specified; sphere:
  7. an area of interest, activity, pursuit, etc.; field:
  8. an administrative division of a city or territory.
  9. Zoogeography. a major faunal area of the earth's surface, sometimes one regarded as a division of a larger area.
  10. Anatomy. a place in or a division of the body or a part of the body:
  11. Mathematics. Also called domain. an open connected set. the union of such a set and some or all of its boundary points.

Origin of region

1300-50; Middle English Anglo-French regiun Latin regiōn- (stem of regiō) direction, line, boundary, equivalent to reg(ere) to rule + -iōn- -ion

Examples for region

The region is marketed for visitors as “Aryan Valley,” and many citizens have taken to tacking on “Aryan” to their last names.

God's beginnings are imperceptible, whether in the region of soul or of matter.

We are now in the region of the Causses; around us rise the spurs of Sauveterre and Svrac.

And that may well be what is happening in the Barnett Shale region around, yes, Dallas and Irving.

From many points of view this region of survivals is full of interest.

In doing so he exposed the failure of other airlines in the region to see the huge pent-up demand for cheap travel.

The weather on the route of AirAsia Flight 8501 was not unusual for the region and the season.

He might be a good doctor and a philanthropic one; his visits to this region looked like it.

Instead, spa hotels filled up with over 30,000 refugees from the war-troubled Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

But all this was as yet only in the region of the feeling, not at all in that of the thinking.

Word Value for region
Scrable

7

Words with friends

9

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