Usually means: Area with distinct geographic characteristics.
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We found 41 dictionaries that define the word region:

General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. region: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. region: Merriam-Webster
  3. region: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. region: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. region: Collins English Dictionary
  6. region: Vocabulary.com
  7. region: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  8. region: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. region: Dictionary.com
  10. region: Online Etymology Dictionary
  11. region: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  12. Region (England), Region (Europe), Region (Quebec), Region (administrative), Region (computing), Region (disambiguation), Region (geography), Region (mathematical analysis), Region (mathematics), Region (model checking), Region, The Region: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Region: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. region: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. region: Rhymezone
  16. Region (f), region, regin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. region: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  18. region: FreeDictionary.org
  19. region: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. region: TheFreeDictionary.com
  21. region: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  22. region: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  23. Region, region, region: Wordnik
  24. region: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  25. region: Wiktionary

Business (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  3. eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary (No longer online)
  4. region: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. region: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. region: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
  2. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  4. region: Medical dictionary

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)
  2. Region: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  3. region, region: PlanetMath Encyclopedia

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. region: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Sweetwater Music (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  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 reference to location or extent but viewed as an entity for geographical, social or cultural reasons.
noun:  An administrative subdivision of a city, a territory, a country.
noun:  (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.
noun:  An administrative subdivision of the European Union.
noun:  A subnational region of Chile; equivalent to province.
noun:  A subprovincial region of Quebec; the primary level subdivision; a prefecture.
noun:  (figuratively) The inhabitants of a region or district of a country.
noun:  (anatomy) A place in or a part of the body in any way indicated.
noun:  An approximate range.
noun:  (obsolete) Place; rank; station; dignity.
noun:  (obsolete) The space from the earth's surface out to the orbit of the moon: properly called the elemental region.
noun:  (Ontario) Ellipsis of regional municipality; a county-level municipality. [(Canada) A type of municipal government similar to and at the same municipal government level as a county, although the specific structure and servicing responsibilities may vary depending on the place.]
noun:  Ellipsis of administrative region. [A type of region in some countries.]

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