region

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun the extended spatial location of something
noun a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve
noun a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth

From Middle English regioun, from Anglo-Norman regiun, from Latin regiō, from regō. Doublet of regio.

Louis XV. claims Ohio region. — A School History of the United States, John Bach McMaster
It was a desolate region. — Eighty Years and More; Reminiscences 1815-1897, Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Man is a weed in those regions. — Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, Thomas De Quincey

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