Usually means: Area with distinct geographic characteristics.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. region: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. region: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. region: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. region: Collins English Dictionary
  5. region: Vocabulary.com
  6. region: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  7. region: Infoplease Dictionary
  8. region: Dictionary.com
  9. region: Online Etymology Dictionary
  10. region: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  11. 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
  12. Region: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. region: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. region: Rhymezone
  15. Region (f), region, regin: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. region: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. region: Free Dictionary
  18. region: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. region: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  20. region: Dictionary/thesaurus
  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. Region: eyefortransport e-commerce transportation glossary
  4. region: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. region: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. 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.
noun:  Ellipsis of administrative region. [A type of region in some countries.]

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