1. (

• region ,
• part

) the extended spatial location of something; "the farming regions of France"; "religions in all parts of the world"; "regions of outer space" ;

2. (

• area ,
• region

) a part of an animal that has a special function or is supplied by a given artery or nerve; "in the abdominal region" ;

3. (

• region ,

) a large indefinite location on the surface of the Earth; "penguins inhabit the polar regions" ;

4. (

• region ,
• neighborhood

) 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" ;

5. (

• region ,
• realm

) 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" ;